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...story of how Geter's claim of injustice came to be heard is no dry matter of lawyers marshaling cool arguments for an appeals court. It has been a slam-bang battle waged by friends and lawyers to build public pressure. Says one of his attorneys, George Hairston: "According to an ancient proverb, 'You can get more with a gun and a smile than you can with just a smile.' We've smiled, played by the rules and got nowhere. The media...
...than $11,000 in the young engineer's support. "This is not a tightly knit organization," declared Engineer Wendell Crom, "just a bunch of people who know the man is not guilty." The N.A.A.C.P., alerted by a South Carolina State College dean, was also outraged and dispatched Lawyer Hairston to aid in the defense. He and court-appointed Attorney Edwin Sigel scored a small success in November 1982 at a hearing for a new trial when the South Carolina sheriff appeared to say that Fortenberry had misinterpreted his remarks. Geter had no record in South Carolina, he said...
...Hairston turned to the court of public opinion. He began by enlisting a new "old-boy network" of black journalists. As a result, a black reporter on the Dallas Times Herald went to the city editor, who assigned the story to Susan Milstein, then on the paper's courthouse beat. At first she was leery: "People call all the time saying, 'My brother is in jail and it's a case of mistaken identity.' " But she quickly became intrigued: "I could not understand why all of these middle-aged white engineers were so upset. They were...
...Cable News Network soon followed. The snowballing scrutiny got a further push last month when Geter's roommate Williams, who had no previous criminal record, was acquitted of the charge against him. But it was a 60 Minutes broadcast in early December that was "the tipping factor," says Hairston, who had written to one of the show's producers. In addition to reviewing the facts, CBS reporters aired evidence from two new alibi witnesses for Geter. The young engineer had a bit of luck. Explains Sigel: "The show came on immediately after the Dallas Cowboys game against Seattle...
Curtis McKinley Hairston...