Push to reopen civil rights-era cold cases stalls
SOURCE: CNN (9-9-08)
Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era.
The outcome: Not one case has been prosecuted under the FBI's Cold Case Initiative, which actually began two years ago with no fanfare at all.
The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era.
The outcome: Not one case has been prosecuted under the FBI's Cold Case Initiative, which actually began two years ago with no fanfare at all.
Source:
CNN
Source URL:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/09/civil.rights.cases.ap/index.html
Date:
9-9-08
