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According to police, the sniper fired from a window perch in the rooming house. Stephens told authorities that seconds after the shots rang out he had seen a stranger hurrying down the stairs from the second floor, carrying a package that presumably concealed the murder weapon. Days later, he identified...
Thus, from an inconsequential human cipher, Stephens leaped to importance as a central witness in one of the century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the...
Stephens was understandably irritated over this treatment, especially when police refused his own brother permission to see him. His irritation raised a little-understood legal issue: What are the rights of a material witness? He got in touch with a pair of Memphis attorneys, Harvey Gipson, 37, and Jay Fred...
No Actual Threats. Tennessee's law had been tested in the courts only once, but in that case the jailing of a witness had been upheld because he had balked at testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His...
Last week Stephens was free and living in a small, police-protected apartment somewhere in Memphis. Pleased by their success, Gipson and Friedman maintained that their exhaustive research showed that laws regulating witnesses' rights could stand improvement in many states. The more enlightened laws, they pointed out, allow written...