Lawfare Archive: Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace on White Lies
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What Ultimately Prevents the FBI From Doing a Competent Investigation
The three men who were arrested in 65 were tried in state court the Department of Justice had a federal case several civil rights case looming for several years after that and eventually dropped it. For witnesses one refuses to testify and takes the fifth the other is deemed incompetent by a doctor who never even examined him in the first place. The prosecutor ultimately decides to do very little with the information in that file you know calls a cut or tries I guess to call a couple of witnesses who the FBI interviewed and for a variety of reasons those one doesn't show upYou won't return from Mississippi there was no extradition at that point so what ended up happening is that that prosecutor ultimately decided to dovery little with
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