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When Ku Klux Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins' trial for the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo ended in a mistrial last spring, it was something of a victory for the prosecution. In that Deep South Lowndes County courtroom at Hayneville, Ala., anything short of outright acquittal had...
Unprovoked Violence. A special four-judge panel quickly turned Flowers down. "If we were to interrupt the trial of the Wilkins case to review the rulings here under consideration," said the court, "we would establish a precedent that would in the future operate to impede the progress of all criminal...
Richmond Flowers, Attorney General of Alabama, has won northern praise and southern notoriety for his opposition to Alabama Governor George Wallace. Several weeks ago he was thrown out of a Lowndes County courtroom when he tried to take over the prosecution of Thomas L. Coleman, charged with killing a white...
Also on 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...
Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...