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...case involved Gladys Pulliam, a Virginia magistrate who ordered two men held in jail because they could not make bail, even though they were charged with minor offenses that carried no jail terms. The two men got a federal injunction forbidding such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis...
...sentenced to 30 years in prison, but has been free for the past two years on $1 million bail pending his appeal. The court threw out the conviction on a technicality: police did not have a proper search warrant when they examined a syringe that contained traces of insulin-evidence that helped convict Von Bülow-in a small black bag found in his closet. The case can be retried using legally obtained evidence, but Von Bülow's attorney, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he would seek to have the charges dismissed on the ground...
Ohana spent about an hour in jail at the Central Square police station before he was released after payment of a $15 bail charge...
...Crimson widened the gap in the seventh when Maspons reached on an error and DiCesare sent the bail just right of the left field foul pole...
Within weeks of the arrests, almost half of those felons were back on the street, having been released on bail, freed on then" own recognizance or placed on probation. The irony is that many of them had been arrested because they had previously jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or failed to show up in court to face earlier charges. Among the newly liberated: a 25-year-old Oakland man with 26 earlier arrests for grand theft and selling narcotics; a 22-year-old woman accused of forcible rape, prostitution and committing lewd acts with children; and a 21-year...