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Another "American Exceptions" installment

By Mark Obbie

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I was right about the timing of Adam Liptak's next "American Exceptions" dispatch. Today's is right on schedule, and a lamentably infrequent schedule it is. Still, it was worth the wait. Liptak's curiosity this time takes him to the weird world of bail bondsmen. Rather than focus heavily on the oft-told tale of bounty hunters, he examines the more fundamental oddness of our system of privately financing pretrial release. If a bunch of veteran legal editors and writers were to examine these story ideas before they were Liptaked (Liptacked?), they'd likely label them old news. But it's refreshing to step back and ask basic questions about how our institutions work, and whether they're the only way to get the job done.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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