Puerto Rico's constitution currently stipulates that every accused has the right to bail.
Puerto Ricans have voted against two constitutional amendments that would have limited the right to bail and cut the size of the legislature.
After all, here is a monarch who abolished press censorship, invented the right to bail for people awaiting trial, reformed the country's finances, and led bravely in battle despite a crippling disability.
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The amendment would have given judges the right to deny bail in certain murder cases, including those accused of premeditated murder, or killings committed during home robberies, sexual assaults or drive-by shootings.
Do I expect a bunch of right-wing talk stations to bail on the EAS test?
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Union workers at Ford are the only ones with a legal right to strike, as government bail outs of GM and Chrysler required the union forgo those rights.
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This prospect is sufficiently worrying to make it right to buy time by providing a bail-out for Greece.
Several countries, including France and Spain, are asking for the right to completely exclude depositors from "bail-ins, " jargon for distributing losses during a restructuring.
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On the sidelines, however, there is deep scepticism on both left and right - with conservative Republicans objecting to any more bail-outs, and many Democrats asking why we should help Wall Street rather than the four million people whose homes are being foreclosed, or repossessed.
Cramer would pick up bits of news, load up on the right stocks, leak the gossip to Wall Street analysts and bail out after the price popped.
The judge reserved the right to downgrade his ruling at any time, but Mr Pistorius' legal team will now need to prove he deserves bail despite facing the most serious charge.
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