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Grew furious with connick. >> he said he was going to hold a hearing in open court, to try to determine exactly how this had happened. he wanted all the citizens of new orleans to see. >> at the hearing, attorneys questioned the key prosecutors involved with thompson's case, including jim williams, the man with the little electric chair on his desk. a colleague testified that williams was given the blood results, but williams denied it. >> williams' story is that he never received it, he never saw it, and so at the end of the day, the choices between dishonesty and incompetence. they can eithe...

Nothing more. we talked about the right way to handle this and rather than hold a big press conference and point the finger at the district attorney's office, we thought that the right first step was to go to mr. connick himself. >> connick's reaction initially was that he wanted some time to think about it. we told him he had a matter of two, maybe three hours. we've got an execution date in less than two weeks. we said if you can't agree even with these facts, we'll take the next step that we think is appropriate. >> mr. connick realized he had no alternative. the evidence was all too clear....

>> emhe would hold appearing of open court. he wanted all the citizens of new orleans to see. >> at the hearing they questioned the key prosecutors involved in the case including jim williams, the man with the little electric chair on his desk. a colleague testified that williams was given the blood results but williams denied it. >> williams' story is that he never received it. that he never saw it. so at the end of the day, the choices between dishonesty and incompetence. they can either be the prosecutors who knew that evidence was being with health in their case or they can be the prosecut...

opportunity to bring on an apprentice is not there. larger projects provide us with greater opportunity because you have a larger core base of journey workers that we can begin to prioritize apprentices. chairperson maxwell: what about doyle drive? >> that is federally funded. it is a project that is being managed out of caltrans and the san francisco transportation authority. they are the project manager on that side. what city build has been able to do is to work with them to find opportunities in the upcoming large contracts, again to be able to encourage using good faith to encou...

work hours should be performed by apprentices. we try to work with each of the contractors in order to maximize the opportunity. not all projects in san francisco have apprentices. if a contractor comes on board and only need four laborers or only need four pile drivers, the opportunity to bring on an apprentice is not there. larger projects provide us with greater opportunity because you have a larger core base of journey workers that we can begin to prioritize apprentices. chairperson maxwell: what about doyle drive? >> that is federally funded. it is a project that is being manage...