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...difficult issue right now," said Spiegelman. "The city has financial problems and the University has a lot of property. We are willing to help. But I think we are an inappropriate target to bail out the city. We want to be a player, but not in isolation to solve the issue...
Eastwood plays a fun-loving hard guy who captures fugitives who have skipped out on their bail money; cons a villain into believing he has won a date with Dolly Parton, then shows up in a limousine and arrests him; dresses up as a rodeo clown and nabs a bad-guy bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they...
...under court order to remedy the situation, but New York prison authorities are forbidden by law to resort to a simple release of surplus prisoners to alleviate overcrowding. Instead, the city is scrambling to speed up inmate processing, so that accused criminals awaiting trial can be released on bail, while it is also spilling inmates into the overcrowded state system...
Result: Williams, 37, became the first parent arrested under the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act, a six-month-old California law that compels parents to supervise and control their children or be charged with contributing to delinquency. Williams, free on $20,000 bail and denying guilt, faces a possible year in jail and $2,500 fine...
...real story here, the real horror, chronicled in painful detail by Willard Gaylin (in The Killing of Bonnie Garland), was the aftermath: sympathy turned immediately from victim to murderer, a Mexican American recruited to Yale from the Los Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian Brothers and attending a local college under an assumed name. Friends raised $30,000 for his defense. "From my investigation," wrote Gaylin, "it is clear that more tears have since been shed for the killer than for the victim...