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...body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was on trial for his murder...
Twice in 1964 Beckwith walked free after all-white juries deadlocked. Indeed, exactly 30 years ago to the day -- Jan. 27 -- Beckwith's first trial had begun. Back then Mrs. Evers sat in this same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of the jury. She watched while Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and expert marksman, winked, smiled and clowned through both trials. But today "Delay", as his friends call him, now 73, sat stonefaced. In his lapel he wore a Confederate-flag pin. He strained to hear Mrs. Evers as she recounted...
...limit was placed on civil rights leader Medgar Evers' life; a bullet in the back saw to that. Three decades after his slaying, though, there's no limit on justice. The Mississippi Supreme Court has cleared the way for a third trial of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie...
Baden's exhumation last June of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers appears to meet that test. Although white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There...
Linkages and Law: Enetic Liability, Confidentiality and Discrimination--by Joh Beckwith, professor, Harvard Medical School, and Lori Andrews, research fellow, American Bar Foundation. HLS, Pound...