Dang -- I used to think he was just stupid. He signed some sort of bail forms with disappearing ink back in the mid-1990's...dang, I wish I could find an internet story about it, but it was big news in New Orleans for a few weeks anyway. I'm not that familiar with the criminal justice system so I can't tell you much more than that....
Sounds like Durham, where they handed out blank warrants to the police, to fill out whenever they wanted, for whatever they wanted. And (presumably) took payoffs to get people out of such crimes as rape. (Maybe they were trying that again recentlY? Maybe the lacrosse players should just have payed up?)
And low bonds for violent crimes are notorious in Durham.