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Search results for "Keith King" ...
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Coretta Scott King: Uncovering the FBI's Secret Spy Files
The project reveals how law enforcement agents secretly spied on Coretta Scott King, the wife and widow of Martin Luther King, monitoring her activities and conversations for a minimum of four years after her husband's assassination. "The documents also open a historical window to the paranoid fever-dreams of government in the 60's that led to many rights abuses."
Tags: Coretta Scott King; civil rights; law enforcement; spying; FBI; wire-tapping;
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A case for innocence
Miami Herald investigates a possible wrongful conviction dating back to 1993. The series reveal that Timothy Brown, a mentally ill teenager convicted for the murder of a police officer, might have been wrongly imprisoned. The reporters find evidence that his confession appears to have been coerced, and expose a pattern of false confessions in Broward County, Fla. Part of the series also reports on the capture of another suspect, Andrew Johnson, who has confessed to the murder on tape. To obtain some of the documents needed for the investigation, the newspaper initiated a public-records lawsuit against the sheriff's office.
Tags: crime; law enforcement; justice; courts; police; FOIA; mental health; children; Keith King