Pubdate: Mon, 09 Sep 2002
Source: Amarillo Globe-News (TX)
Copyright: 2002 Amarillo Globe-News
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Author: Joseph A. Graham

THERE'S MORE TO TULIA DRUG BUST THAN HAS BEEN IN THE PAPERS

Ruben Navarrette, in his Aug. 31 column, says the drug bust in Tulia was 
just racist and not an effort to rid a town of drugs. Some people in Tulia 
said the arrest of several underage people drinking beer was racist because 
most had Hispanic surnames.

The prosecutor in Tulia must have been good to get juries to send people to 
prison for a very long time just on the word of a stranger. There had to be 
more that is not making the papers.

I might be naive, but why would 34 of the 46 arrested plead guilty to 
crimes they did not commit?

I do agree with Navarrette that Texas Attorney General John Cornyn opened 
an investigation into the arrests because he thinks he is losing votes in 
his bid for the U.S. Senate.

Joseph A. Graham

Amarillo
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