The tale of an innocent locksmith held to an excessive bail who successfully sued his jailors.
The origins of America’s right to bail in Puritan New England.
The story of Penn’s many encounters with arrest imprisonment and the text that would revolutionize bail in the United States.
The struggles of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to work out the relationship between bail and contempt.
The experiences of a former Vice President with the federal bail system in a high-profile treason prosecution.
The story of a wealthy South Carolina planter who went to extraordinary lengths to avoid execution on a forfeited bond.