Reply #13: Former KKK Member's Conviction Vacated

[Ex Lurker]

Source: WLBT TV

There has been a shocking decision by the U-S Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court has overturned the kidnapping conviction of former Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale and rendered a judgement of acquittal.

"The jury is from Mississippi and I hope every citizen of Mississippi; Franklin County can rest tonight with the veil of shame off of their eyes." That was Thomas Moore's reaction in June 2007. He had waited 43-years, nine days of trial and two hours of jury deliberations to hear a guilty verdict returned against James Ford Seale.

Seale is the former KKK member convicted of kidnapping and conspiring to kidnap Moore's brother, Charles Eddie Moore and his friend, Henry Hazekiah Dee in 1964. The teenagers were taken into the woods and beaten, driven across the state line into Louisiana, strapped to an old engine block and some railroad ties and dumped alive into the Mississippi River....murdered for no apparent reason other than the color of their skin.

Read more: http://www.wlbt.com/global/story.asp?s=8981189

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Two Reagan, one GHWB appointee on the three judge panel.