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...field evolve to where it is today? Increasingly you start to see this hand in hand match of the criminal justice system and the forensic scientist. These professional forensics programs, once they got started, gave a support system for people who really believed this mattered. So they weren't just fringe scientists. Before they were kind of the creepy guys who liked dead bodies, but it grew into a respectable profession. Now, we're fascinated by the science...
...order to make it undrinkable) and distilling out the bad chemicals. The government passed new regulations that forced manufacturers of industrial alcohol to, in some cases, put 10 times as much poison in that alcohol. People started dying in droves. Scientists and toxicologists were absolutely furious saying, 'You've got to stop this.' The answer of the people who were in government and behind the dry crusade was 'Too bad for them, they're breaking the law.' In the end, they held to this so hard and fast that literally tens of thousands were killed by this government program...
...director Ana Paula Hirano Litvin says, “At the beginning, the documentary consists more of formal interviews in question and answer format. Then as we got to know the families, and became friends, they became comfortable with us and the camera, and they would talk about their experiences without us even asking. Sometimes we would just stay over at their apartments, cook together, and sleep on their floors. Some of our best scenes were filmed spontaneously at one or two in the morning.” Because of this special relationship between the filmmakers and subjects, the documentary...
...death. What's it like to develop a personal connection with unsavory characters? Most of the cases I work on are tragic, but at a very deep level they make sense to me. I understand how [the crime] happened. Most of my clients dropped out of school. They've got extensive juvenile records. They came from backgrounds of deprivation. I'm not saying that excuses their conduct. I'm simply saying that there were any number of points in the lives of my clients where I truly believe that if society had intervened more aggressively, it could have done something...
...been tweaked and stretched and has gotten somewhat more expensive but, in essence, this is the legislation that Democrats hope to pass. Though the notorious bipartisan Gang of Six disbanded before the final bill was written, the basic structure of the legislation was developed with Republican input. It even got a Republican vote when it was passed out of the committee, that of Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. But don't expect that to matter on Thursday. At the meeting, the most important topic of discussion will probably be who gets to sit next to whom...