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Saturday, July 29, 2006

$50 Million Bail

Posted by on July 29 at 14:50 PM

Brendan reports from Haq’s hearing at King County Jail that bail was set at $50 million. The judge, Barbara Linde, asked the prosecution if they intended to file capital charges, and they said they weren’t ready to request that.

Brendan reports that Haq, being represented by a public defender who was there for all this afternoon’s defendants, was dressed in grayish orange jail issue garb and shackled at the feet. Haq was calm, thick-set, with short hair, and bald on top.

“Your guy is being kept in N7LC,” an officer told Brendan. “That’s the most highly isolated are of the jail, the psych isolation area. You can see everything, everything’s made of glass, everyone’s alone.”

There’s a press conference at 3:30. We will give a full update then.

Brendan spoke to a bail bondsman before the hearing (there were about four bondsmen hanging out in the hearing room). Brendan asked the guy how much he guessed Haq’s bail would be, and the bondsman guessed $10 million. When the judge set it at $50 million, you could hear the bondsmen whistling through their teeth.


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They should light his ass on fire and throw him off a high building. Islamo-terrorists are mentally ill idiots who need to be exterminated. Israel is cleaning out Lebanon for us Americans so we can kick back and enjoy our lives. Thanks to everyone at the Stranger for keeping the blog on point and the discussion pro-Israel. That is as it should be.

Josh, are you for real, or are you some lame attempt at satire?

The ring-wing in this country has become so detached from reality that satire is obsolete.

Josh isn't rightie, he's leftie, but his attempts at irony are so inept that it's hard to tell the difference. It's a shame he can't step out from behind his dickfaced attempts at cleverness and participate in some sort of discussion. He's a coward, basically.

Kinda reminds me of that "Religion Sucks" guy.

I guess at 50 million, with a bondsman you're talking about 5m in cash, and then you own, lets say the Gates Estate free and clear and put that up for collateral lol. It would be one very happy bondsman.

Anybody can post a message as "Josh." See?

or not

take two

I don't understand - what's the point of $50mm bond? Why not just remand him, it's not like they want a murder suspect having any chance of fleeing? Is remand just from Law & Order?

I don't think you can deny at least the possibility of bail unless it's a capital crime or the like, Scott. Not sure though.

If Josh Feit didn't post comment number 1 then I think The Stranger should remove it. If he did, then that's just sad.

Slog commenter "Josh" is not Josh Feit.

"josh" usually comments under the Israel related posts, and his comments always include a hearty thanks to the Stranger for being "pro-Israel" regardless of the actual content of the post, and usually contain the wording "Islamo-terrorist". There are other "must-haves" in his comments, but if you ever read more than one, you've seen 'em all. His comments sound canned, rehearsed, and are reused, often verbatim- again regardless of the actual content of the post.

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