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In Local Controversy
Bail Bonds Study Could Lead To Solution
ENS and BERNARD DILLARD, state officers of the
on Club of North Carolina, who will preside during
[ion'May 16-17 at the Raleigh Civic Center. They are
Rogers-Herr School Career Exploration Club. Ber-
5-86 District III vice president and Trisha is 1985-86
By Milton Jordan
Durham’s longstanding con
troversy over bail bonds could be
settled this summer, following an
extensive year long study by the
Institute of Government at UNC-
Chapel Hill.
“A lot of what we will do
about the bail bonds situation
hinges on what that study says,”
explained Chief District Court
Judge David LaBarre. ‘‘And
while we won’t rely solely on the
study, it will play a major role in
helping us develop a new
strategy.”
According to LaBarre, the In
stitute of Government was asked
last summer to begin a year-long
study of Durham’s bail bonds
procedures. The study should
answer such questions as: what
does the amount and type of
bond have to do with a defen-
Jant’s appearance in court; to
what extent does the type and
amount of bond inhibit the
preparation of a defense against
charges and exactly what role
should professional bail bond
smen play in the scenario of pre
trial release.
These questions, with no
specific, data-based answers,
have created swirling controversy
in the local court system.
On the one hand, a group of
bondsmen have charged that
local magistrates are endangering
the public by releasing potentially
dangerous defendants, including
people charged with multiple
DWI charges, on unsecured
bonds.
On the other hand. Judge
LaBarre has said that bondsmen
are griping because their profits
are down because magistrates are
not requiring defendants to use
bondsmen to get out of jail.
A professional bail bondsman
is licensed by the N.C. Insurance
Department to stand as a ‘‘sure
ty” for persons charged with
various crimes, and ordered to
put up a bond as a condition of
being released from jail, pending
trial. j
Bondsmen charge defendants
15^0 of the total bond as a fee or
premium for signing the defen
dant out of jail.
Therefore, obviously, the more
secured bonds a magistrate re
quires, the more money bond-.
smen. make, if people are to g^
out of jail before trial.
In a recent interview, LaBarre
said the issue is not really how
much money bondsmen make or
ion’t make, but what is the most
equitable way of dealing with a
complex constitutional issue.
‘‘Both state law, and a policy
in Durham County, based upon
that law advocate the less str
ingent methods of pre-trial
release,” LaBarre explained.
‘‘Our goal is to consider as many
factors as we can in making that
decision, and to keep the public’s
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North Carolina
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fication of the
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reported that in
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tions for a profit, and continues
to remain active in the com
munications industry with owner
ship of two cable franchises and
recent involvement in cellular
radio.
' In a related matter, Kennedy
announced the retirement of
Maceo A. Sloan as vice chairman
of the NCM Board. Sluau's
retirement ends his 48 years of'
service to NCM. Kennedy also in
troduced James N. Parrish to the
policyholders. Parrish, a Fellow
of the Soceity of Actuaries, is the
company’s new senior vice
president-chief actuary.
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Miss Tonya Michelle Evans
KWAME TURE, formerly Stokely Carmichael, organizer of the All African Peoples Revolntionary Par
ty, spoke last week at North Carolina Central University as part of a tour of North Carolina colleges that
took him to six campuses in seven days. _
Photo by NCCU News Bureau
Hillside Senior Wins Outstanding Business Award
By Milton Jordan
Tonya Michelle Evans took ac
counting in the 11th grade last
year, and by her own description,
“...went wild about business.”
“After that,” she said during a
recent interview, “I want to learn
everything 1 can about business.”
Last week, Ms. Evans, 17, a
Hillside High School senior, was
honored as Outstanding Businesi
Education Student in Durham
Orange and Wake counties.
The lionor was given by ths
Research Triangle Chapter of thf
Administrative Managemenl
Society. She recefved a $100 sav
ings bond.
The Administrative Manage
ment Society is a professional
management association thal
promotes the exchange ol
technical knowledge, manage
ment information and th
development of individua
careers.
Ms. Evans, the youngest of ter,
children, ani the only one still
living at home in Durham, says
she is well on her way in develop
ing her career in business.
A short term goal, she said, is
to major in Business Administra
tion at North Carolina Central
University after graduating from
Hillside in June. The senior car
ries a 91.2 grade point average to
graduation.
“After college I want to work
in accounting or marketing with a
major company,” she said.
“Though somewhere down the
road, 1 think I would want to run
my own business, though 1 don’t
know in what area of business
right now.”
Other than settling on the fact
that she particularly enjoys ac
counting and marketing, mostly
because she wants to learn much
more about both, Ms. Evans said
she has not settled yet on her
favorite area of business.
“Frankly,” she said, “1 love
every area right now. I like work
ing with people,' dealing with the
public. I like dealing with Figures,
learning how corporations work
and how they got started.”
A busy student, Ms. Evans is
president of the Hillside Drama
Club and a member of Future
Business Leaders of America,
Science, Math and the Mu Alpha
Theta clubs, in addition to other
extracurricular activities.
According to information
from Triangle Chapter of the Ad
ministrative Management Socie
ty, the Outstanding Business
Education Student was selected
by comparing scholarship,
leadership, service and prepara
tion for a business career.
To cover the subject of
preparation, Ms. Evans submit
ted a paper ot the judges, entitled
“Preparing for a Business
Career,” which said, in part:
“1 have always believed that an
individual can accomplish what
he or she wishes, given minimal
opportunities, adequate motiva
tion and average intelligence.
Aristotle was an astronomer
without a telescope, a biologist
without a microscope, a chemist
without a laboratory. Yet for
2,000 years, his concept of
natural phenomena ruled science.
Inspired by his example and those
of countless others, I am eager to
devote mv God-given talent to
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