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The latest a Report says i Working halt Yellow Jack Wi VOL. XII NO. 14 I Washington, D.C., resident Kii what she had to say. We exp Parker). By L.A.A. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer While commending a recently r< manager's report for addressing concerning local police's handlii Deborah Brotherton Sykes murder believe the study may not have enough. Aldermen and Hunt supporters \ ' ed appreciation for the work of Cit Bill Stuart and Assistant City M Beatty in compiling the report bi pressed their concern that gaps in still leave many questions unanswe Stuart was requested to condu vestigation by Alderman Vivian chairman of the aldermen's Put . _ _ *AA i. ^ _ J J. ? ^ummmee, 10 aauress wnat she Adams: Wei in order to lh By L.A.A. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer A high-ranking church official said black people face a local, national and international crisis of survival Saturday night during the Fifth District Black Leadership Caucus* Second Annual Conference and Banquet at the M.C. Benton Convention Center. John Hurst Adams, presiding bishop of the Second District of the African Methodist EoiscoDal Church, asked a mostly black audience of approximately 250 to return to the things that have \ Researcher, Special To The Chronicle SAN DIEGO -- At least one in of a capital crime for every 20 exc conclude two researchers in a pap . mofexsaccujO^^ ~ ^Tromsm iftgo- AdanrB Massachusetts and Michael L. Ri have identified 343 cases of pers between 1900 and 1985 who wer Either the crime had not hapj not participated in it. The study whiqh capital defendants had the ? ANOTHER CL ssault on black leaders: A4 nany are wrongfully executed: 1 to increase black adoptions:, :ets set to contend in Metro: O JXMi/li-Od The Twin r?i Gray preached the gospel of self-help last week, an lain why in this week's editorial on Page A4 (photo I erters encouraged by widespread concerns among citizens about the case, which led to the conviction last summer ,jeased city 20-year-old Darryl Eugene Hunt. questions Many believe Hunt did not receive a fair lg of the trial onH tho ? | v^/vi i viWJ MAW ^/V/11W 1 U1 case, some repeatedly violating standard procedures in gone far their investigation of the case. ill express- Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W. Womv Manager he is generally impressed with the anacer A1 thorou8hness of the report. "It goes a long it also ex way towards lettin8 ^ chips fall where they the report" may'" he said" red. However, Womble said the report is only a ict the in- beginning. H. Burke, "1 think we should use this report as a spr>lic Safety ingboard for further action/' Womble said, said were "We want to give the city manager a clear-cut need power e in dignity allowed them to come as far as they a new America and let it begin in I 3 Winston-Salem," Adams said. I "We must recover the ability I to do so much with so little," he I said. "We are not nearly as money-poor as we are valuecheap." Adams cited the building of black colleges by "our uneducated mommas and daddies" as an example of how black people historically have turned John Hurst Adams ch ? - - nieado see page aid xnai docks nave used s cite one mistake for e trial errors or other d As a result of thes< mocent person has been convicted people were executed; Kutions in this country since 1900, executions. ?er presented Nov. 13 to a national Many spent long ye , years and more, say I ~of~Ttmr ^nfmUty in migteasftrr ttreBe adelet of the University of Florida director of the Capits ;ons convicted of capital offenses Liberties Union, said e, in fact, innocent. this century at least xned at all or the defendant had sentenced to death hi excludes the many more cases in At present, there i :ir convictions reversed because of United States. AA HEARTBRE. * ilem C City's A ward- Winning Weekly ^ Thursday, November 28, Tisdale m handlin; According to I H district attorm By ALLEN H. JOHNSON and L.A.A. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writers Local police "made a series c might very well be insurmountat vrsfigation of the Deborah. Bu.Syki District Attorney Donald K. Tisdai Police Chief Joseph E. Masten in a 19, 1984. Tisdale also admitted in the let against defendant Darryl Eugene convicted and sentenced to life im I weak, while the police's actions mi believe it was solid. Among a number of ways in wh d we like I ed the case, Tisdale wrote in the ay James I which were sent earlier this week was their near-arrest of a suspc ?J Thomas for the Aug. 10, 1984, mi city report message that we intend him to follow up on this. "I think it reflects that citizens of this community and the Darryl Hunt Defense Committee related some very valid concerns. I think it goes a long way toward vindicating the Defense Committee. There is a strong possibility that all the evidence in this case has not come out or has been distorted. There's also a strong possibility that Darryl Hunt did not get a fair trial. This shows that, when citizens take an active role, it can make a difference.' ' However, Womble still said he was not satisfied that the report addressed some areas thoroughly enough, including the payment of . state witness Johnny Gray by the police, the Please see page A3 mM arged his audience to return to the basics in past struggles (photo by James Parker). *%S\ WT ?1 _ vary zu i/.o. exec ue-process-of-law reasons. e 343 mistakes in capital cases, 25 innocent others came within days, even hours, of their ars of their lives in prison, some as long as 25 iedau and Radelet. ehrcr-Radclct' fhwlftigspHcrtrjrSdTwMigiftttdr?" il Punishment Project of the American Civil , "These figures show that in every year of one person who was falsely and innocently is been awaiting execution." ire about 1,600 people on death row in the IR: Bl ? I Mr. WSSU's newt begins reign hron 1985 35 cents criticize g of Syk etter to Masten ?y listed a 'seri on informatioi McConnell). Police later >f mistakes that Have murdered )leM in their in- the time of the ;smurder,wrote - If-he-had-n le to then-Acting incarcerated," letter dated Oct. been charged, police investiga ter that his case uTisdale a'so Hunt, who was "ho P^ned pc prisonment, was *,mse'f ? sled the public to best frle"d" ? name and did i made the call. lich police bungl- Tisdale told letter, copies of vestigators hav to the aldermen, Gray ...." ;ct named Terry "There are < lrder based solely F w^ * ^p The Rev. John Mendez at last * mittee press conference (photc Black busiiu offer words c By ROBIN BARKSDALE Chronicle Staff Writer The heads of two national minority business organizations conducted a seminar last week in Winston-Salem to help acquaint minority businesses with current purchasing issues. Mary McDuffie, the national vice president of the National Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs, offered counseling to black business women and to black women considering starting their own businesses. Meanwhile, A1 Whittfield, the utions since j 4'These horrible facts are dr< fallibility of our death-sen tencini 4'Judges, legislators and the Amer about the unavoidable risk of e therefore releasing the study even the scholarly literature." American Society of Criminology It shows that, since the beginnnii an average of about 38 wrongful ci per decade. It lists 49 such cases i: first half of the 1980s. Please se< t Bam I *st monarch I . Page A6 I icle 30 Pages This Week A police es case f in October '84, j es of mistakes' n from witness Johnny Gray (alias discovered that Thomas could not Mrs. Sykes because he was in jail at crime. ot been so fortunate as to have been ; Tisdale wrote, Thomas "would have and we would he trvino him tkp ? J ---? ???? ? 11 ition would have been shut down." questioned the credibility of Gray, >li<??4?yeport the crime, identifying imy Mitchell, the name of Hunt's ay later said he had made up the tiot know Sammy Mitchell when he Masten in the letter that "your ine been all too ready to believe Mr. :ertain things about Mr. Gray that Mease see page A2 ? ^ , \ ^ ^ * ^p nnfci it* .v v . mL T* m ; SK V yv i ' M reek's Darryl Hunt Defense Com> by James Parker). ?ss leaders )f advice j head of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, presented information to the 1 />r? r% 1 ? ? ?? A iv/vcu UU3U1CS5 tummunuy on methods of gaining a foothold in the purchasing industry. i The seminar and reception were sponsored by the Hanes Group in what coordinator A1 Arrington said "was an effort to continue to establish open lines of communication with local minority vendors.*' Arrington is director of government compliance and employee law for Please see page A2 1900 | imatic proof of the on-going g laws," Schwarzschild added. ican public are entitled to know xecuting the innocent. We are before its formal publication in irrrmMf muring cf" in San Diego. ig of this century, there has been ipital convictions in this country n the 1970s and 15 so far in the 9 page A13 I i
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