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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on: Emergency "bonding-out rule" signed Thursday by the judges of St. Joseph Superior Court
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, today Sue Lowe reports in the South Bend Tribune:
SOUTH BEND — There were two new developments in the arrests of anti-abortion protesters at the University of Notre Dame Saturday.It turns out six people arrested Friday will not have to spend the whole weekend in jail as officials originally thought.
And 19 people were arrested Saturday.
Bonds were set for the six who were arrested a second time Friday including conservative politician Alan Keyes.
None of them had bonded out as of 3 p.m. Saturday but bond was set at $1,000 each. * * *
A new rule was signed Thursday by the judges of St. Joseph Superior Curt requiring that people arrested a second time on a misdemeanor charge not be able to bond out of jail until a hearing before a judge.
Officials initially thought Keyes and five other people would not be able to bond out until they appeared in court Monday.
But St. Joseph County Police Sgt. Bill Redman said somebody from the St. Joseph County prosecutor’s office and St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jerome Frese reviewed the cases Saturday and Frese set the bonds.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 17, 2009 09:14 AM
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