Silver Gavel Awards for Media and The Arts
American Bar Association
1997 Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mentions
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NEWSPAPERS Juvenile Justice: Caught in a Bind The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio Mark Braykovich and Cameron McWhirter, Reporters A three-part series that analyzed the effects of binding juvenile offenders over to adult court, a popular idea intended to deter juvenile crime that the investigation found to be ineffective. Protected Witness A series on how the Federal Witness Protection Program, originally created to protect
innocent witnesses and combat organized crime, has itself become a danger to public
safety. |
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MAGAZINES No Gavel Award Honorable Mentions were presented in this category in 1997. |
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BOOKS Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases Bernard Schwartz, Author Oxford University Press Based on documentary and oral sources--many not publicly available--Decision presents a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Court and the justices. Rights of People Who Are HIV Positive Using a simple question-and-answer format, this American Civil Liberties Union guide
explains the legal rights of people who are HIV positive or have AIDS. |
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THEATRE No Honorable Mentions were presented in this category in 1997. |
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TELEVISION Eyewitness NBC "Dateline" New York, New York Len Cannon, Correspondent; Meade R. Jorgensen, Producer; Ina Smith, Editor A "Dateline" segment that reexamines a notorious Denver murder/bank robbery case to illustrate the problems with eyewitness testimony. What's It Worth? An illuminating piece that uses three civil cases to explore how monetary damages are
assigned to non-monetary injuries. |
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RADIO Assisted Suicide WAMU-FM "The Derek McGinty Show" Washington, DC Derek McGinty, Host/Executive Producer and Elaine Bole, Producer Airing on the day
briefs had to be filed in the assisted suicide case before the Supreme Court during the
1996 Term, this 58-minute program presents three different points of view of this highly
charged case. |
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FILMS AND VIDEOS Paradise Lost Creative Thinking International New York, New York Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Co-Filmmakers A true story of the most notorious
murder case in Arkansas history. The filmmakers, granted unprecedented access to all the
players in this real-life drama, captured the events in the shocking aftermath of the
crime as they unfolded before their cameras. |
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