Record #:

25584

Author(s):

Reid, Dee

Abstract:

In the longest criminal civil-rights trial in U.S. history, nine Klan-Nazi defendants were acquitted on charges stemming from the 1979 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro. There are four contributing factors that led to the not-guilty verdicts including a conservative interpretation of the federal civil-rights statues, the defense casted the victims as revolutionaries, jury selection did not reflect a cross-section of the community, and defense and prosecution contrasted in experience and style.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 8, April 27-May 10 1984, p3, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Riots--Greensboro; Ku Klux Klan; Communist Workers Party (U.S.)