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Three weeks later Vincent Bolden and David Hester, cousins from East St. Louis, robbed the grocery store where Granderson worked of $5,000, hustled him to a back room and shot him dead. According to prosecutors, Bolden and Hester were hitmen, contracted by the vengeful ex-mayor to assassinate Granderson for $10,000. Defense attorneys say that a drug dispute may have been the motive: Hester, an admitted dealer, testified that he once sold Granderson cocaine worth...
...Bolden, 30, struck a deal with the prosecutors: in return for pleading guilty to murder and testifying that Carthan hired him, he was offered the likelihood of only eight years in prison instead of a possible death sentence. He took the stand last Wednesday in the murder trial of Carthan, but much of his testimony was ruled inadmissible as hearsay, since Hester alone had made all the alleged arrangements with Carthan. The next day a new plea bargain was struck, this one with Hester: for testifying that he and Bolden had killed Granderson on Carthan's orders...
...Michael Bolden, asst. dist. say for Middlesex County, said yesterday that "there seems to be some indication that the packers interfered with the police as they were attempting an arrest, a shuffle ensued and none of them would go voluntarily or quietly with the police...
...such a way that their effect was discriminatory. Courts would consider a number of factors to determine whether a law impaired a minority's right to vote. The House bill would reestablish this standard. But the Administration seeks to reaffirm at best the standard enunciated is Mobile v. Bolden (180)-which said that a plaintiff had to prove an invent to discriminate, a far harder task. Ignoring the realities of contempoary discrimination in its scrutiny of generations-old election laws, this doctrine places a tremendous burden on the plaintiff...
...ROBIN BOLDEN, 19 Unemployed, Chicago