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Sheila Jackson Lee: “That is correct. What I don't understand, and what we will be, if you will, perusing is, where did this case go wrong…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2012
That is correct. What I don't understand, and what we will be, if you will, perusing is, where did this case go wrong and the fact that the Federal Government has to come in when things go wrong. Someone said to me in my office that this case has riveted like Emmett Till's case riveted.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Mar 22, 2012

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