Making Bail Jumping a Seperate Crime ...: Hearings ... on H.R. 8658 ... April 14 and May 18, 19541954 - 34 pages |
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30 days 30-day period acts admitted to bail appear as required appear or surrender apply apprehended arrest bail for appearance bail in connection bail jumping bail was given bench warrant bill BYRON G certified Chairman charge of felony Columbia Code commissioner or court committee Communist Party Congressman Poff contempt Criminal Division Criminal Procedure criminal proceedings CURTIS defendant Dennis Department of Justice district court District of Columbia double jeopardy Emphasis added extraditable fails to appear failure forfeited forfeiture of bail GEORGE MEADER given in connection Gus Hall imprisonment incurs a forfeiture indictment JONES jump bail jurisdiction legislation MARONEY McCULLOCH MEADER misdemeanor municipal court national park petty offenses police court post a bond prosecution provides punishment question RICHMAN ROGERS rule 46 rule 54 Rules of Criminal statement subcommittee subpena thereby incurs trial United States attorneys United States Code United States Commissioner York statute
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Page 28 - FORFEITURE. (1) Declaration. If there is a breach of condition of a bond, the district court shall declare a forfeiture of the bail. (2) Setting Aside. The court may direct that a forfeiture be set aside, upon such conditions as the court may impose, if it appears that justice does not require the enforcement of the forfeiture.
Page 29 - ... agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such state, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 29 - Bail may be taken by any court, judge or magistrate authorized to arrest and commit offenders, but in capital cases bail may be taken only by a court of the United States having original or appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases or by a justice or judge thereof.
Page 32 - Witness. If it appears by affidavit that the testimony of a person is material in any criminal proceeding and if it is shown that it may become impracticable to secure his presence by subpoena, the court...
Page 1 - Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.
Page 28 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Page 28 - The constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could not reasonably understand to be proscribed.
Page 29 - Customs Court and any court created by Act of Congress the judges of which are entitled to hold office during good behavior. The terms " district court" and " district court of the United States" mean the courts constituted by chapter 5 of this title.
Page 1 - States, incurs a forfeiture of the bail and willfully fails to surrender himself within thirty days following the date of such forfeiture, shall, if the bail was given in connection with a charge of felony or pending appeal or certiorari after conviction of any offense, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than...
Page 29 - ... or pending appeal or certiorari after conviction of any offense, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, or...