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...Professor Ed Sherman. But prosecutors want to win, and they "perceive that a Texas jury is more likely to give the death penalty to a black who killed a white." A similar South Carolina study found an almost identical pattern: local prosecutors over four years sought death sentences in 38% of homicides involving a white victim and black killer, but only 13% when a white had killed a black...
Wilkerson's first trial ended in a hung jury, but the second resulted in his conviction. [For reasons of strategy, prosecutors limited charges to the murder of the doctor.] Says Sherman Ross, now a judge, who represented Wilkerson both times: "The district attorney's office good-old-boyed him into a death penalty." For his part, Wilkerson tries to make the best of life on death row: "It takes a great deal of personal effort to not become hard within yourself and hate the free world...
...giving an extra push to experiments that were already successfully under way. City Venture Corp., founded three years ago by Control Data Corp. and other companies in cooperation with the American Lutheran Church and the United Church of Christ, is helping to revive Toledo's rundown Warren-Sherman district, where unemployment is higher than...
...result, Warren-Sherman is beginning to hum. Twenty companies, doing everything from carpet installation to computer-parts assembly, have set up shop in the district. Some 500 new jobs have been created so far, and 1,500 more are projected by 1987. In October, Ohio designated Warren-Sherman as its first enterprise zone. That promises to reduce state and local taxes for some firms. The next step is a 23-acre industrial park, where Owens-Illinois is now building a plant that will make corrugated boxes...
...property owners in communities where tax rates declined saw their individual tax bills go down, however, J. Robert Sherman, spokesman for the Revenue Department, said the "vast majority" of cities and towns have revalued their property since Proposition 21/2 took effect...