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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Black in Bellaire
Robbie Tolan dreamed of a career in Major League Baseball, until a night that changed it all. While driving home to a predominantly white and affluent neighborhood, he was stopped by the police in front of his home and was suspected of stealing his own car. As his parents stood by, the police officer shot Robbie and almost killed him. He now lives a life without his love, the game of baseball.
Tags: Bobby Tolan; Bellaire, Texas; gunpoint; crime; law enforcement; criminal; race; bias; discrimination
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Freedom for Anthony Caravella
This series is an investigation of the conviction of Anthony Caravella and potentially how it was flawed. He was convicted of rape and murder, without proper DNA testing and a biased prosecutor. Eventually, the investigation led to his release, but now he is faced with a number of challenges. Also, an investigation was launched on the prosecutor, who wrongly convicted four other people of murder.
Tags: court; judge; jury; genetic testing; Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); prison; prisoner; law enforcement; confession
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Small Town Justice
A Haitian truck driver, Jean Claude Meus, was convicted of vehicular homicide after a semi he was driving turned over and fell on a minivan, killing a mother and daughter. While no drugs or alcohol were present in his system at the time of the accident, prosecutors were able to push a conviction based on their assertion that he had fallen asleep at the wheel, and was thus driving recklessly. But WTVT-TV investigators "found convincing evidence that (he) did not fall asleep, and in fact, was trying to avoid an accident." An off-duty firefighter was a witness at the scene, and asserted that Meus was "alert and helpful immediately after the crash." Yet the lead investigator, who attended high school with victim Nona Moore, never interview Juan Otero, the off-duty firefighter. With the help of experts, WTVT reconstructed the crash, and the conclusion drawn was that Meus had turned off the road to avoid an obstruction. Further, WTVT spoke with jurors who said that with that new evidence, they would not have voted to convict.
Tags: Unfair trials; Florida Highway Patrol; quick convictions; crash reconstruction; juror bias; investigator bias; racial profiling; all-white jury
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Land Condemnation: Who Pays the Price?
The investigation focuses on Kentucky's system of acquiring land for highway construction which wastes millions of dollars in public funds, is often performed by biased and unqualified surveyors, and efforts which have failed to change the system over the last three decades.
Tags: Federal Highway Administration; Kentucky's Transportation Cabinet; FOIA; public funds; highway construction; land condemnation
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Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News and the Danger to Us All
Fenton, a veteran CBS reporter, writes an honest critique of the business of broadcast news. He accuses the industry of having a political bias, and being lazy and incompetent. Interviews with leading television news personalities back up his opinions.
Tags: broadcast journalism; network news; television; news anchors; political bias; under-reported stories
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Police Force Under Surveillance
The Bakersfield Californian goes beyond the legal mumbo jumbo to find out what really goes on in the force. Reporters talk to former and current officers and members of the community to contribute to their article. The result is an unbiased, honest review of what role racism plays in the Bakersfield Police Department.
Tags: police; cops; brutality; racism; department of justice; doj; racial profiling; bias; civil rights; false charges; harassment; misconduct
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Wring Out The Old
Never say never in the telecommunications industry. This is precisely what the young heads of QWest learnt after their manic adrenaline rush while writing off old-school US West employees and boasting of new rapid business models. Westword analyzes the full circle that QWest have come after nearly bullying over telephone company US West and firing their employees. Riding high on the stock wave soon after they took off, the new-age telecom player (QWest) were eaten up by the dotcom bust in the late '90's. Currently they face allegations of all sorts- from SEC filings to unfair pensioners policies and biased executive compensation packages.
Tags: QWest; Aeillo; US West; telecommunications; Nacchio
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Changes eyed for federal anti-bias system. EEOC riding herd on agencies. Battling delay, dismissals in bias cases.
This article talks about people's problems and complaints about the EEOC (equal opportunity employment commission).
Tags: EEOC; equal opportunity employment commission; employment; jobs; complaints; courts; law; justice; lawyers
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Inside the PSC
Early stories report on "accusations of bias at the state Public Service Commission in Tallahassee by Supra Telecom, Florida's largest alternative local phone company," according to the contest questionnaire. Supra claims the commission has been unfair in handling its corporate dispute with BellSouth. Later stories are about Supra's slide into bankruptcy, and point to questions about the quality of its financial reports.
Tags: deregulation; business; accounting; finances; Chapter 11
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Deadly Decisions
"Deadly Decisions" examines how capital juries unlawfully sentence people to death --including people who are innocent -- as a result of racial bias or misunderstandings of the law. In two cases, documented in this report, defendants in Virginia were executed because judges refused to clarify juror's questions about parole.
Tags: bias jurors; capital cases; racial profiling; wrong sentencing; RADIO; CD; transcript; database mapping project