Pubdate: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 Source: Amarillo Globe-News (TX) Copyright: 2004 Amarillo Globe-News Contact: http://amarillonet.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/13 Author: Dennis DuBois TULIA DRUG STING IN A NUTSHELL Let me see if I have this right. The Tulia drug defendants (and their lawyers) claim that Tom Coleman came to the town, opened the phone book and began randomly selecting names. After lengthy and exhaustive investigation (to determine that most of them were black, not that they were selling drugs), he finally settled on an end number of 46. Of this number (through racial profiling) he ensured that the large majority (39 of the 46) were black. Then, without any other evidence or corroboration, he announced that they had sold drugs. End of case. Dennis DuBois Amarillo - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman