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Search results for "Black Hills" ...
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Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper
Scapegoat is the true story of the horrific Chino Hills murders -- the highest profile crime in San Bernardino County history. It shows how law enforcement ignored eyewitness information implicating three white men as the perpetrators in order to pin the crime on Kevin Cooper, a recently escaped black prisoner from the nearby prison in Chino, California. It shows how his public defender lost the case before the trial even began and how the justice system has failed Cooper at almost every turn. It also shows the heroic work of an international law firm headquartered in San Francisco that adopted Cooper's case pro bono just three months before his scheduled execution in 2004 and won him a stay and how lawyers from this firm continue to appeal his wrongful conviction.
Tags: Murders; crime; law enforcement; police; prison; justice system; wrongful conviction
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The Chauncey Bailey Project
After Chauncey Bailey, an editor at the Oakland Post, was "assassinated" the newspaper "leaped on the story. The next day, a 19-year-old employee of a long time Oakland business called Your Black Muslim Bakery was charged with killing Bailey and said in a confession he later recanted that he shot the editor to stop him from pursing stories about the bakery's trouble finances and internal power struggles."
Tags: Arizona Project; assassination; Chauncey Bailey; Oakland; California;
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Pretrial Release: Has the system gone awry?
The Herald-Tribune uses a computer analysis to reveal "laws on pretrial release are ripe for abuse." A defendant awaiting trial can be "Released on Recognizance" (ROR) under Florida law -- allowed to remain free without having to post any type of bond. But an analysis of 2,430 people granted ROR in Sarasota County over a period of one year found nearly 200 people were released without bail "were arrested on new charges and given ROR again," that hundreds were granted ROR despite "a history of serious crimes or of failing to appear for trial," and that "some judges routinely bend the rules when it comes to releasing longtime or violent crooks." The investigation also revealed that "blacks stand a much worse chance of being granted ROR because the conditions are skewed in favor of middle-class whites."
Tags: bail; release; release on recognizance; judges; pretrial; arraignment; prosecution; defendant; ROR; computer-assisted reporting; CAR
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Tickets and Minorities: Delving into disparities
The Press-Enterprise commissioned a study to examine 3,973 traffic tickets written by Riverside, Calif. police in 1998 to determine whether the city police department has engaged in racial profiling. It found overall that black and Hispanic drivers were ticketed at disproportionately high rates in Riverside in 1998.
Tags: racial profiling; Riverside City Police Department; traffic tickets; discrimination; database mapping project
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The Unfashionable
In the year of "Dances with Wolves," everybody wanted to be on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Nearly a decade later, it can hardly get a quorum. Reporter Peter Carlson looks at the problems still plaguing America's Indian reservations, from extreme poverty to an inefficient bureaucracy at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Tags: Indians; BIA; treaties; Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell; gaming; poverty; Black Hills
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WJLA found evidence of discrimination just blocks from our nation's capitol. News Seven's I-Team went undercover to reveal what rental housing applicants have been complaining about for years. Working with the fair housing council of greater Washington, the I-Team found black and white "testers" given anything but equal treatment in their search for apartments on Capitol Hill. (February 8, 9, 13, 16; April 18; December 9, 1996)
Tags: Mays Hewitt Kelly Horror housing stories Contest entry 35 pgs. TAPE
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Crazy Horse memorial project: "When the legends die, the dreams end..."
Indian Country Today examines the Crazy Horse Memorial Project in a five-part series. The investigation found that many members of the Indian community find the project to be a desecration of sacred ground and question the financial motives of the family of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski.
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Black home-loan applicants in New Jersey are more likely to be rejected than their white counterparts, regardless of income. In this two-year probe into economic discrimination in New Jersey, the Asbury Park Press finds that home loan lenders use subtle, but questionably legal, methods to redline minority and lower-income neighborhoods. (May 22, 1994-Sept. 24, 1995)
Tags: D'Ambosio Hill Crotti CAR The Mortgage Game Federal Reserve Discrimination Racism 85 pgs.
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No title (id: 13087)
This Patriot-News article looks at Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop-killer on Death Row who has collected support from an odd mix of radicals, politicos, academics and celebrities while coming to symbolize all that seems wrong with the death penalty. From direct mail to the Internet, Berlin to Beverly Hills, Abu-Jamal is billed as America's political prisoner. (Aug. 20, 1995)
Tags: Bell Mumia; Inc. Courts NAACP Police Charities Black United Fund Murder 4 pgs.
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CNN conducts an in-depth investigation at how crime and corruption are undermining Russia's future as a nation. Plus a close-up look at how the Russian mob's nuclear black market is threatening Europe, and exlusive details on how the mob is now moving in on America. (March 12, 1995)
Tags: Hill Polk Williams Mackenzie et al The wild wild east Contest entry Mafia 25 pgs.