Word: bails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have changed during the past six years. Unfettered critical media have replaced the "crony press." She is no longer the wife of an all-powerful President, and is possibly a criminal to boot -- as she was reminded last week when she appeared in the Quezon City courthouse to post bail and undergo fingerprinting on tax fraud charges. Some unexpected events could also hurt an Imelda candidacy. The devastating typhoon that struck her native province of Leyte last week has triggered widespread anxiety about the country's dynastic political system among the superstitious masses. People say that the two widows...
...False Arrest, a two-part ABC drama this week. Donna Mills, TV's most heart-wrenching sufferer, plays a businessman's wife who is falsely accused of ordering the murder of her husband's partner. It's all downhill from there. In jail she is brutally raped. Out on bail, she gets vicious phone calls ("Murderer! You're gonna burn in hell!"). At her trial, she is framed by lying lowlifes. Once in prison, she learns that her husband has emptied her bank account and disappeared. Her kids stop coming to visit. Even her lawyer drops her case without explanation...
When asked from where he draw the funds to pay for these programs, Brown responded, "the same place where they came up with the money to bail...
...right. Whisked from the border by German Justice Ministry officials, who met him there by prearrangement with his attorney, Wolf was driven to Karlsruhe, seat of the country's high courts. There he was booked for espionage but, astonishingly, was released by a magistrate on $30,000 bail. The magistrate's reasoning: that since Wolf had turned himself in, there was little likelihood that he would try to flee the country. The ruling was promptly appealed by Germany's chief prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl, and Wolf was put in investigative custody. A ruling on the appeal could come this week...
Later the same afternoon, King, whom authorities had already named as a suspect, walked into the Cambridge Police Station and turned himself in, Boyle said. King is being held without bail in the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge...