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what about the case of troy davis teaching you about the u.s. justice system and the role that racism may or may not play in the u.s. justice system. it says everything there is to say about it i think this is. poor minorities are expendable when there is this well of emotion around prime minister hariri. people's lives are lost as a result of somebody committing a shooting and it becomes less about it and less about the search for truth and more about holding someone accountable and because. people are africans and minorities and people don't have money. or it doesn't matter if you get to the truth. and untruth you. know go ahead go ahead try to have this case where they're going to do this is his we have a person the most logical person who did the shooting actually confessed to shooting her number of times or if you. know were children exploration or ignoring evidence. so what is the situation for trading us at the moment i mean is he pretty much set to be executed next month or are there some other options to sort of try to prevent this from

that led to this this this case i mean we talked and our previous arrest today about the case of troy davis a man in georgia who was actually also a sight to be executed who has had an overwhelming amount of evidence showing that he was not guilty in fact there was even a person who confessed to doing a crime and a menace still set to be executed so is it that these cases which did take place several years ago are reflection of an older system of injustice or is the country still struggling with the same sort of racial issues that it that it did that with . the country still suffering from the same racist issues but i think what has he just eternally in a snit and will this stick in philadelphia the situation has changed considerably philadelphia used you to stream be racist groups and. now it's much less now if you will why are majority black berry but blacks are the largest percentage of the city of philadelphia now and i think the jury hears the disk so great get it speech but if pressed try to reach by the senate bills mind could get it it did then and the real interesting is when they

there's another piece we want to talk about today there's countless others for example the case of troy davis another african-american man in georgia who is facing execution actually next month despite an overwhelming body of evidence pointing to his an offense comment on that real quick before we sort of get out of a symbolic meaning a back. well recently wrote a great way to it's very shocking shocking a. rare occurrence in ramallah in most cases there is a man with. ideas out. there he was absolutely innocent did not commit what's called the murder of the. role. in the wake of the movie never. to joke with biting was. in i believe those words when you hear. if you if you take a police actually in line all of the i can read the rules and so not always work with them one assumes for but what we all consider. intimate level of fairness in the legal system well and also what we believe in our press countrymen american genuinely private self-worth believe in liberty and justice for all so why does our legal system not reflect that well because our legal system lucy is made up of people who are

by fireman's fund >> belva: good evening, i'm belva davis and welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me now on our news panel are troy wolfe ton, personal technology columnist for "san jose americay news." bob egelko, legal reporter, san francisco chronicle, and carla march new which i, also with san francisco chronicle. the senior leadership is assembling, these guys should be happy but the state where it is, what are the many concerns that will be discussed? >> yeah, democrats meeting this week in sacramento. you're right, belva, they have a lot to be happy about. they have every statewide office. they have a voter advantage of more than 2 million in california. i mean, this is a party that should be celebrating a lot, except this hangup for their governor, harry brown, he needs just a handful of republican votes to get him those budget proposals in front of voters to california and it has not happened. i think this weekend we'll see drama up there. all of the statewide elected officials there will be, attorney general, gavin newsom and dianne feinstein will give the address on friday but the party will hear from b