Federal Bail Procedures: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2838, S. 2839, and S. 2840, August 4, 5, and 6, 1964

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Considers legislation to liberalize bail requirements.
 

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Página 15 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Página 469 - The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread'.
Página 214 - ... b ) In determining which conditions of release will reasonably assure appearance, the judicial officer shall, on the basis of available information, take into account the nature and circumstances of the offense charged, the weight of the evidence against the accused, the...
Página 240 - The right to release before trial is conditioned upon the accused's giving adequate assurance that he will stand trial and submit to sentence if found guilty.
Página 11 - ... be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Página 212 - And upon all arrests in criminal cases, bail shall be admitted, except where the punishment may be death, in which cases it shall not be admitted but by the supreme or a circuit court, or by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of a district court, who shall exercise their discretion therein, regarding the nature and circumstances of the offense, and of the evidence, and the usages of law.
Página 212 - A person arrested for an offense not punishable by death shall be admitted to bail . . .
Página 241 - Imprisonment to protect society from predicted but unconsummated offenses is so unprecedented in this country and so fraught with danger of excesses and injustice that I am loath to resort to it, even as a discretionary judicial technique to supplement conviction of such offenses as those of which defendants stand convicted.
Página 327 - ... require him to give bail for his appearance as a witness, in an amount fixed by the court or commissioner. If the person fails to give bail the court or commissioner may commit him to the custody of the marshal pending final disposition of the proceeding...
Página 351 - Witnesses in Criminal Cases, RJ Hagan, 28 Brooklyn L. Rev. 207, 220 (1962). Imprisonment of the Material Witness for Failure to Give Bond, 40 Nebr. L. Rev. 503 (1961). The Plight of the Detained Material Witness, 7 Catholic UL Rev. 37 (1959). Indigent Witness, Forcibly Detained While Awaiting Trial, Not Entitled to Witness Fees, 5 Utah L. Rev. 119 (1956). Right of Witness Detained in Custody for Future Appearance to Fees for Such Detention, 50 ALR 2d 1439 (1956).

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