The applicant must show by disclosing special facts and events that he has reason to believe, that he may be arrested for a non-bailable offence so that the court may take care to specify the offence or offences in respect of which alone the order will be effective and it is not a blanket order covering all other offences.
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In a 50-minute speech to a handful of law students and throngs of international news media members, Ryan also hinted that he was likely to issue a blanket order commuting the sentences of the 150-plus remaining death row inmates on Saturday, saying that his three-year study of the capital punishment system in Illinois persuaded him it cannot be trusted.
