Sentence examples for high bail from inspiring English sources

Mr. Meinl says the unusually high bail is a sign that the prosecutor was biased.

"And I'm disappointed that the judge did not grant the high bail".

Prosecutors also disputed the contention that they requested high bail amounts to pressure destitute defendants into pleading guilty.

He appealed; the court set a nearly impossibly high bail but the black community raised the money.

Network leaders accuse the city of "criminalizing dissent" by pre-emptively arresting some protesters and seeking high bail, amounting to preventive detention.

At the arraignment, an assistant United States attorney, Peter Katz, asked Judge Pollak to set a high bail for the defendant.

Judge Bauer has contended that other circumstances, like being arrested in the company of known felons, justified high bails in certain cases.

Judge Jackson said the main reason judges set high bails was that in the past, defendants had failed to appear in court.

While some bail bondsmen oppose the use of credit cards, Eric Paykert of American Liberty LLC in Queens said he does not worry about losing business, because those seeking his services generally face high bails.

What kind of crime should get high bails?

As part of a concerted effort to keep protesters off the streets, political arrestees are commonly detained on prohibitively high bails, denied access to legal counsel, and held without arraignment in defiance of habeas corpus.