Word: baxley
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...employers with felony charges. "This time they crossed the line," says the Florida Chamber's Mark Wilson of aggressive N.R.A. lobbyists. With a similar Oklahoma bill stalled in the courts, Florida G.O.P. lawmakers are torn between two of their best friends. Take the bill's sponsor, for instance. Dennis Baxley, who gets highest ratings from both the Chamber and the N.R.A., says, "It's very awkward...
...Back then, nobody would talk," says Rob Langford, a retired FBI supervisor. "You'd interview people, and they wouldn't want to testify. With the climate being different now, they are willing to cooperate." In the '70s, Alabama attorney general Bill Baxley successfully prosecuted "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. But after Baxley left office, the case went mostly dormant and was not reopened until 1995. Langford, assigned to Alabama, met with local black leaders who were tired of delays. Says he: "What it took was a commitment to stick...
...once said he was watching wrestling on TV (there was no wrestling that night). He has also said he was home with a wife who was dying of cancer. As it turns out, his wife's cancer wasn't diagnosed until years after the bombing. Once, former attorney general Baxley got to question Cherry in a room in Texas. "He jumped up and was going to beat me up," Baxley recalls. "You knew he'd revert to his bully-boy ways." But knowing he could face extradition to Alabama, Cherry backed down. He has other defenses. In 1965, when asked...