Neshoblog: "Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Neshoba D.A.: Vast Majority Of Jury Pool Is White
Neshoba County District Attorney Mark Duncan didn't have time to do the math on Tuesday, but he told the Associated Press after the day's court proceedings that more than three-fourths of the remaining jury pool is 'probably' white.
About 75 people remain in the jury pool.
From the AP:
The 2000 Census shows Neshoba County's population of about 28,700 is 75 percent white and 12 percent black, with the rest divided among other races. District Attorney Mark Duncan was asked if the group reflects the racial makeup of the county.
'Probably not,' he said.
Asked if the jury pool has a higher percentage of whites, Duncan said: 'Probably.'"
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Philadelphia Trial - Wasn't it About Time?
Overdue Mississippi Trial Finally Begins - Part 1:
"Mississippi Klansmen bared their worthless souls to the world when in the summer of 1964 they kidnapped and murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, aged 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, both from New York and James Chaney, 22, from Meridian, Mississippi.
Forty-one years later, one alleged Klansman in his seventies stands trial in Philadelphia, Mississippi for a long-ago crime that still symbolizes the Magnolia state for much of the nation.
As jury selection is underway in the Neshoba County Courthouse, so many questions surface. The most frequent? Why only prosecute 'Preacher' Edgar Killen when eight others, alleged to be party to the lynching, are still alive and prosecutable, too?
And this question: Is a recent community coalition, set up to begin race and reconciliation, motivated for the right reasons? Or is something fishy?
One early chapter of this story that seems so long ago, opens the evening of Sunday, June 21, 1964 when civil rights leaders Aaron Henry and Charles Evers, attending the national NAACP convention in New Orleans, received news about three missing civil rights workers and immediately went to work, trying to learn more. "
... Continues
Overdue Mississippi Trial Finally Begins - Part 1:
"Mississippi Klansmen bared their worthless souls to the world when in the summer of 1964 they kidnapped and murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, aged 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, both from New York and James Chaney, 22, from Meridian, Mississippi.
Forty-one years later, one alleged Klansman in his seventies stands trial in Philadelphia, Mississippi for a long-ago crime that still symbolizes the Magnolia state for much of the nation.
As jury selection is underway in the Neshoba County Courthouse, so many questions surface. The most frequent? Why only prosecute 'Preacher' Edgar Killen when eight others, alleged to be party to the lynching, are still alive and prosecutable, too?
And this question: Is a recent community coalition, set up to begin race and reconciliation, motivated for the right reasons? Or is something fishy?
One early chapter of this story that seems so long ago, opens the evening of Sunday, June 21, 1964 when civil rights leaders Aaron Henry and Charles Evers, attending the national NAACP convention in New Orleans, received news about three missing civil rights workers and immediately went to work, trying to learn more. "
... Continues
Overdue Mississippi Trial Finally Begins - Part 1:
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