Kentucky Supreme Court decision

[Bob Haas]

Herb, did you need the link to hear the story again?

It's http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=74352

bob

> From: "Herbert F. W. Stahlke" <hstahlke at GW.BSU.EDU>
> Organization: Ball State University
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:55:08 -0700
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Kentucky Supreme Court decision
>
> Friday evening May 19, I heard a commentary on All Things Considered on
> a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that I've been trying to follow up
> on--at least I think it was Kentucky.  The appeal involved a drug case
> in which the suspect was the only African-American in a house with other
> people, and the police officer heard a voice making a drug deal.  He
> identified the voice as that of an African-American speaker.  On the
> basis of this testimony the suspect was arrested and convicted.  The
> case came to the state supreme court where the testimony was allowed and
> the conviction upheld.  I've checked the NPR site on this and the
> Kentucky supreme court site, but I haven't been able to find any further
> information.  Can anyone provide more information about the case?  I'd
> like to use it in my language and society class, but I don't want to do
> so without documentation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Herb Stahlke