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Miss trial, or slam into prison with Spooner? (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jump bail

'slam into prison with spooner?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'miss trial' is the wordplay.
'miss' becomes 'jump' (jumping is a kind of missing).
'trial' becomes 'bail' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'jump'+'bail'='JUMP BAIL'

'or' is the link.

(Another definition for jump bail that I've seen is " Abscond from court appearance".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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