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Hunt gets life
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Chronicle Assistant Editor
v \ Darryl Eugene Hunt sat silently, with a
tear running down his face, as the clerk of
court read the jury's decision.
Hunt was found guilty last Friday of
first-degree murder in the killing of
newspaper copy editor Deborah B. Sykes.
Hunt sat equally silent three days later as
that same jury sentenced him to life in
prison. The jury's alternate sentence was
death.
Outside the courtroom, said bailiffs,
Hunt broke into uncontrollable tears after
the jury's first verdict and cried out "I
didn't doit, I didn't do it."
The jufy's verdict brought the 15-day
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on the testimony of three eyewitnesses who
identified Hunt as the murderer and a
former girlfriend of Hunt's who gave
police a statement that indicated that Hunt
and Sammy Mitchell, his best friend, were
involved in the murder. Mitchell was not
... Defense team
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
against Oarryl Eugene Hunt 4s just beginning,
say black community leaders.
The Baptist Ministers Conference and
Associates voted on Tuesday at its regular
meeting to begin raising more funds for the
Darryl Hunt Defense Committee. A goal of
$25,000 has been set; the money will be used
to finance Hunt's appeal to the 4th Circuit
Court of Anneals.
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In addition, said the Rev. Carlton
Eversley, chairman of the public affairs
committee of the predominantly black
minister's group, expert attorneys will be
retained to handle the appeal.
Daniels quits rat
By DAVID R.fcANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
Joe Daniels, who announced his intentii
seek office during the winter, has decic
withdraw from the Northeast Ward aldei
race.
Daniels, a 17-year resident of Winston-Sale
an active Democrat, had been one of thre
didates in a race that included high school as
principal Victor Johnson and incumbent Aid
Vivian H. Burkp.
Daniels said he won't run for the alderman
that Burke has held for three terms because c
cent job change and the financial demands c
ting his two daughters through college.
"I have a financial responsibility to put n
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WSSU gets chancellor
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Officially, he doesn't begin his duties until
Aug. 1.
But unofficially, he's already on the job.
Well, at least he's doing part of the job.
He's paving the way for a smooth transition.
Dr. Cleon F. Thompson Jr., 53, the new
rhanrHlor nf Winstnn-Salem State Univer
sity, was in town Tuesday morning to talk
With interim chancellor Dr. Haywood
Wilson. Thompson also took time oui
from his visit to talk with the Chronicle.
"It's indeed an honor and privilege to be
given this opportunity/' said Thompson as
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on trial and has not been charged in the
Sykes killing.
Sykes' body was found on Aug. 10 in a
grassy slope behind the Crystal Towers .
senior citizens apartment complex. Sykes
had been raped, sodomized and stabbed 16
times. The fatal wound was a stab to the
heart.
District Attorney Donald Tisdale had
asked for the death penalty.
Hunt's defense was based on destroying
the credibility of the state's eyewitnesses,
the lack of physical evidence linking Hunt
with the crime and Hunt's alibi.
The jury deliberated for 15 hours. During
those deliberations, the jury came back ,
to the courtroom to ask for additional information,
a visit to the murder scene and
"physical, factual distances." Presiding
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but allowed them to review
unspecified documents in the courtroom.
As the clerk of court read the verdict,
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"Hunt's attorneys (Gordon Jenkins and
S. Mark Rabil) admitted that this was their
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long history of throwing blacks -in jail.
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44An appeal is difficuTt, and we need the
best legal minds possible. Jenkins and
Rabil are like Byron Scott (second-year
guard for the Los Angjeles Lakers), they got
us to the championship but it takes a
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to win it all."
This is the first issue, said Eversley, that
has brought all the rtiinisters together and
caused them to speak as fervently as they
have. I
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Thompson becomes WSSU's seventh
chancellor and replaces Dr. H. Douglas
Covington, who resigned almost one year
ago to take over as president of Alabama
A&M University in Normal, Ala.
Thompson now serves as vice president
for student services and special programs
> for the University of North Carolina
system's general administration. ThompI
son served as interim chancellor at North
: Carolina A&T State University from 1980
to 1981. His primary function with the
! general administration has been to operate
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Enabling legislatio
By BILL HAMILTON
I Chronicle Staff Writer
The proposed state legislation to enable the
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Brown Kennedy, passed a test of constitutionality
requested by the chairman of the House Judiciary I
Committee. The chairman had requested that the
attorney 8enera^s office examine the bill to see if it
was within the scope of local government's powers.
UkflHHHH The attorney who reviewed it, Douglas Johnston,
said the bill was constitutional, in his opinion, from
5-person race the standpoint of what local governments may do.
Kennedy said the fact that the bill meets constituChronicle
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tional requirements from the attorney general's
standpoint "strengthens chances for passage
tremendoasly."
In another development, Kennedy said that the
version of the bill scheduled to be voted out of committee
this week removes certain restrictions. An
early amendment sought to give minority and
women contractors in the coliseum and uptown
development projects up to 10 percent of the
business. The 10 percent "cap" is still in place, but
the eligible projects have been expanded to all city
projects, not just the two originally mentioned.
"This is a great advantage ... the bill is simpler
and stronger now," Kennedy said.
On another front, the House Appropriations ?Committee
has voted to include $55,000 in the
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refuses plea bargain
}AMS released from jail on Wednesday
:ant Editor afternoon, June 12, the day jury
s while covering liberations began. Gray was arnt
rested on March 12 and charged
with common-law robbery. Gray,
;o Alderman Larry who remained in jail until last
_cc , yt . _ week, was iinH**r a fifiO hr?nH
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.n Thursday night, The Jacket of Gray's warrant
: the jury returned noted that Gra>' could not be
District Attorney leased without the approval of
le asked Hunt to the district attorney.
to second-degree Gray was released from jail on
Hunt, said Little, his own recognizance with a
$5,000 unsecured bond.
d, 'I won't plead After hearing of Gray's
mething I know release, many of the Hunt sup,'
" said Little. porters attending the trial were
outraged and called hiarelease his
key witness in its payoff for his testimony against
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