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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > witness testimony

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witness testimony  

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  • On November 28, 1976, Robert Wood, a Dallas, Texas, police officer, was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop. Whenever a police officer is murdered on duty, there is great pressure to find the murderer; consequently, the search for Officer Wood's killer was intense. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Witness Testimony]

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