Word: cauthen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stevie Cauthen wins his first Kentucky Derby
...Agent Tommy Cauthen sat in his car, fuming. A volunteer for a police lineup, due to meet Cauthen on a rundown street in Kenosha, Wis., was more than an hour late. As Cauthen was about to give up and leave, he spotted another man who fit the general description of the volunteer-young, medium height and black-so the FBI man offered him $5 plus a ride home for standing in the lineup at the Waukesha County Jail, 40 miles and an hour's drive away. Without hesitation, Willie Walls Jr., 21, agreed and jumped into the agent...
...Savings & Loan Assn. of $4,782 on Dec. 30. They had managed to arrest a single suspect, Robert Brantley. Officers hoped that two female tellers would pick Brantley from among six young blacks in the lineup. To the authorities' astonishment, both tellers identified not Brantley but Walls. Said Cauthen: "I was shocked...
...Cauthen drove Walls home as promised, firmly convinced that the tellers had been mistaken. A short time later, however, a convicted felon also in the lineup told the FBI that he had overheard Brantley and Walls whispering about the robbery. Additional evidence was marshaled, and both Walls and Brantley were put on trial. The jury could not agree about Brantley's guilt, and the Government dropped the charges, but Walls was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison...
...knew Brantley, nonetheless insisted on his own innocence, pointing out that he had voluntarily agreed to stand in the lineup. Said he: "I'm not crazy. If I'd done it, there's no way I'd even talk to an FBI agent." But Agent Cauthen has a different explanation for Walls' actions. Says he: "I think Walls suspected I had been waiting for him, and he didn't want to arouse my suspicion. He got into something he just didn't know...