One nomination in the Crime Report category was for our story DUI Dilemma. It's the story of a widow wondering why the man accused in the DUI crash that killed her husband, a suspect who tried to run from the scene of the crime in the first place, was released from jail with no bond and expected to come back to court. Of course, he did not. What we found was judges holding prosecutors to an unattainable standard, prosecutors unwilling to ask judges for more time to file charges when they were waiting for lab work, and crime lab with a backlog of work that somehow managed to get DUI results back in less than three days for a high-profile case involving a dead police officer, but that routinely took weeks to process a blood test.
The other nomination is in the Journalistic Enterprise category for our four-part series on police driving called When Cops Crash. What's especially gratifying to me about this one is that we worked so hard then, and we're actually working on a follow-up report with some new information that's "coming soon."
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