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"Breaking Down Bond Court"
In Cook Country, very little attention is given to bond hearings. However, the hearings can have a major impact on the defendant's life and "have ripple effects for taxpayers and communities." In this story, reporters Tony Arnold and Cate Cahan reveal "rushed hearings," the errors that occur and the "drastic consequences" they have for the defendants and their families.
Tags: bond; bail; Cook County; Chicago; judge; electronic monitoring; lawsuit
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No title (id: 1059)
The Sciences explains the difficulty of defending computers against "viruses;" looks at viruses that replicate and disperse automatically through electronic mailing lists; one virus caused a video monitor to burst into flames; also looks at colleges, such as Lehigh University, where all the data in more than 500 computers was destroyed, November/December 1988.
Tags: Cohen computer virus