Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought to justice. Greenville County deputy sheriffs and city police jumped into action. In a few days, with a hand from the FBI, they rounded up 31 men, got signed statements from 26 of them admitting participation in the lynching. The State Attorney General assigned a crack prosecutor, Samuel Ruth Watt of Spartanburg, to the case. In March, a grand jury indicted all 31 of the men for the murder of Willie Earle...
Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
...made it. He dismissed all charges against three defendants, reduced the charges against seven others, leaving 21 on trial for murder. The defense offered no testimony. One day was set aside for arguments, one for the judge's charge to the jury. Whatever the verdict, Prosecutor Watt and Judge Martin had displayed both courage and fairness...
...Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
...resident of Honolulu and a public prosecutor there manager Desha's "warm feeling" for his alma mater prompted him to arrange the tour. Although Hawaiian participation in the National A.A.U. Tournament is not an innovation, the Cambridge visit...