Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand was a sympathetic delegation from Alabama's Ku Klux Klan, There was 21-year-old Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, himself accused of murdering a civil rights worker, Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo; Wilkins, whose trial in the same courtroom ended in a hung jury, will return there for retrial this month. Near him sat Alabama Grand Dragon Robert Creel and a muscular, crew-cut man portentously identified as chief of the K.B.I.-the Klan Bureau of Investigation...
...retrial can be brought with little effort if the two turn up in the eight or ten days before the case goes to judgment, the Nigerians' lawyer explained yesterday. "I sure would love to know where they are," he said...
Last week Judge Jameson heard the case and granted Mrs. Colliflower's petition. Because she was sentenced with no chance to defend herself, said the judge, "I must conclude that there was a lack of due process under the Fifth Amendment." Mrs. Colliflower is not exempt from retrial and possible conviction, but her victory will sharply curb the power of tribal courts...
...court extended the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to all state courts (Malloy v. Hogan), a step inevitably pointing to Griffin's victory. As a result, the U.S. Constitution now guarantees what 44 states have already established on their own. As for Eddie Griffin, he faces retrial in California with no comment on his silence. Whether the new right will help him remains to be seen...
This would never do. Summarily, Nkrumah fired the chief justice who had presided, declared the verdict void and ordered the five retried. With a new, and presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over...