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An Eye for an Eye?

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That's the title of John C. Williams' report on the case of Kenneth Reams in Arkansas Times.  LINKIn December 1993, Kenneth Reams, an 18-year-old black man, sat on trial for capital murder in a shooting he didn't commit. Seven months earlier, he and a friend, Alford Goodwin, looking for quick money, had waited for a target by an ATM machine at Fifth and Chestnut streets in Pine Bluff. A similar scheme had failed the previous week when an ATM user floored the gas before Goodwin and Reams could get to him. This time the pair, with a .32 pistol in tow, were determined to get what they wanted. And though it was not in the plan to kill someone, that's what happened when Goodwin, who handled the weapon, demanded cash from the driver, Gary Turner...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).