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The verdict: guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The judge went along with the jury's recommendation for a six-year sentence. Next day Willie, whose only apparent crime was getting in the way of Harden's club, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a six-year sentence also...
Denied. Coleman, 55, an unpaid, part-time "special deputy," was indicted by a county grand jury for manslaughter, defined in Alabama as killing "intentionally but without malice." State Attorney General Richmond Flowers took over the prosecution, announced that he would seek a new indictment for murder. Last week, before Circuit...
After less than two hours of deliberation, Thomas L. Coleman, 55, a highway engineer and part-time sheriff, was found innocent of a manslaughter charge on a plea of self-defense. The defense claimed that young Daniels was armed with a knife when Coleman shot him with a .12 gauge...
The manslaughter acquittal means that no further criminal charge in connection with Daniels' death can be filed in state court against the defendant. Coleman, however, was also indicted by a Lowndes County grand jury on an assault and battery charge for the shooting of another civil-rights worker, the Rev...
"An excellent example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some...