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...August, the Innocence Project of Texas plans to unveil a detailed study focusing primarily on the extensive work of one Texas dog handler whose use of scent-ID techniques is under fire in the federal courts. At the heart of the study is the work of Deputy Keith Pikett, a canine officer with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, just southwest of Houston. The first case studied involves Calvin Lee Miller, who was charged with robbery and sexual assault after Pikett's bloodhounds alerted police to a scent on sheets that Pikett said matched a scent swipe from Miller...
...have known personally great people, specifically historian John Hope Franklin, federal appellate court judge Damon Keith, and Howard University law professor Patricia Worthy, to have experienced insult at the very height of their careers. The insidious nature of racial presumption is that the offending white person is often unaware of his or her insulting actions and has no deliberate intention to commit a racist act. For Franklin and Keith, the humiliating incidents were not police-related, but they were unfortunately all too common experiences for many black people. Nor have successful black persons been immune from police arrest or harassment...
...because of experience gained from administering the program this year, potentially more funds to support the program, and greater flexibility in the aid budget cycle, Day said.While reports earlier in the year had raised concerns that some Universities might shy away from Yellow Ribbon in the current economic climate, Keith M. Wilson, director of education services for the VA, said he was very pleased with the overall level of participation. He said he was anticipating a total of around 2,000 agreements with over 600 schools for the next school year—which he said was a particularly strong...
Also, despite the messes in the mortgage market and elsewhere, many remain optimistic that the financial industry in the U.S., unlike, say, auto-manufacturing, will rebound. As troubled large banks have shed employees, a number of smaller firms and international competitors have moved in to snap up workers. And Keith Leggett, chief economist of the American Bankers Association, says new banks are continuing to be formed, even as other fail...
Olbermann, Keith •sanctimonious self-righteousness of is undercut by complicity of in promoting Mancow's waterboarding despite knowledge of that it was, in reality, a mere cheap stunt...