Jackie Northam of member station WBEZ reports on the long-delayed start of the trial of the first of three white teenagers accused of beating 13-year-old Lenard Clark into a coma in March of 1997, in what police say was a racially motivated attack. The high-profile case was delayed in part because of the fate of two key witnesses; one was murdered and the other is missing, with rumors of possible mob connections.
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