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RYKN (AP) — A pool of 48 potential jurors was se-
'd yesterday for the second Jasper dragging death
apd lawyers will try to cut the panel today to 12
rs and two alternatives.
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ing, there are asV tate District Judge Monte Lawlis ordered several ju-
tat need imorc t0 stanc ^ by today in case defense attorneys Doug
dll take a w '■°'f an b Layne Walker challenge the qualifications
li said “But -- k° rs a ' r eady in the pool. Yesterday, Lawlis dis-
always" look-- one s ‘ x J urors B rewer ’ s attorneys asked to
' ” d ^ ; aken out of the pool.
me .. e e '-hewer’s trial will take place 150 miles west of the
. 0 )er County road where authorities found body parts
' ® 16 A Sg |esi ames Byrd Jr., 49, after he was beaten, chained to
n ockers Ambe c {Jip truck and dragged for nearly three miles,
u r i Leahy. Jrewer, prison buddy John William King and Shawn
i were named ;>n Kerry were charged with capital murder in Byrd’s
ment Team
hat would set the stage for opening statements
Tiday in the capital murder trial of 32-year-old
rence Russell Brewer.
ittlrneys for both sides are allowed to strike 15 ju-
fr|m the list, which includes 45 whites and three
ks. The pool was culled from 82 potential jurors
j have been questioned since jury selection began
death, which occurred outside the deep East Thxaslown
of Jasper.
Byrd’s body was discovered on June 7, 1998.
Jasper County jurors convicted King and sentence^
him to death last February.
Lawlis moved Brewer’s trial to Brazos County at the
request of Jasper County District Attorney Guy James
Gray to deny Brewer’s attorneys ah easy appeal issue
— a jury pool biased by the overwhelming media cov
erage of King’s trial.
Gray has said he believes King led the two other men
to kill, with Brewer providing ideology he gained as a
member of the pro-Aryan Confederate Knights of Amer
ica prison gang.
At King’s trial, his attorneys claimed their client
joined a white supremacist prison gang to survive beat
ings or rape by black prisoners.
King and Brewer met in prison. Both were paroled,
and Byrd was killed while Brewer was working odd
jobs in Jasper, which was King’s hometown.
Prosecutors have said they believe the three men
killed Byrd as a publicity stunt to promote their own
fledgling hate group and as an initiation rite of Berry
into the group.
Genetic material left on cigarette butts, found where
Byrd is thought to have been beaten and chained to
Berry’s truck, match the DNA of King, Brewer and Byrd
— all of whom are white.
Berry is still to be tried. The state is seeking the death
penalty for Brewer and Berry.
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BUSH
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disap
pointed students will get a con
solation prize after George W.
Bush failed to show up for a
scheduled visit to their Rhode Is
land school: A1 Gore.
In a nimble bit of counter
scheduling, the vice president has
rearranged a campaign trip today
to squeeze in an appearance at Ella
Risk School in Central Falls, R.I.
The Texas governor and Republi
can presidential front-runner can
celed the school visit Wednesday,
blaming bad weather that had de
layed his flight from New Hamp
shire to Rhode Island.
■NCORD, N.H. (AP) — Abor-
n lights activists are taking aim
Gt)P front-runner George W.
shlwith another round of televi-
n pds in New
jiriBshire.
Kate Michel-
m, president of
National
lorjion and Re-
^Bctive Rights
OfaCCTwedneXy
e Jsxas gover-
ir is concealing
s extreme anti-
iortion views while on the cam-
ugn trail.
“George W. Bush has a record
at meeds to be known,” Michel-
Hp||aid.
She said Bush is keeping a lid on
s views because he is trying to
Id pn to right-wing voters while
t alienating the majority of voters.
In (fact, she said, pro-choice Re-
".iblicans have no choice this time
mrid: Every Republican presiden-
)f a season-opening candidate is anti-abortion, ■'.t
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rter, then left with:
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He kept his date with contribu
tors at a $l,000-a-plate Providence
fund-raiser later in the day.
“The vice president heard
about the issue in Central Falls,
and since he’s going to be in New
England (today), he wanted to
stop by the school,” White House
spokesperson Chris Lehane said.
“He’ll be there regardless of
weather — rain or shine,”
She said Bush met with the
school’s principal and superinten
dent before leaving Rhode Island
and promised to visit the school
later in the campaign.
ads aimed at Bush and Elizabeth
Dole in March in New Hampshire.
NARAL also has run the television
ads in Iowa and California, put up
billboards in Iowa and used banner
ads on the Internet.
^Michelman said Bush signed
more prpyis(OfiS opposing abortion
than any other governor last year,
dne provision, Michelman said,
would make it a felony for a grand
parent or other relative to take a girl
outside the state to obtain an abor
tion without parental notification,
even if the pregnancy resulted from
incest.
Michelman said she fears that if
elected president. Bush,.would.nohv
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Supreme'and fower federal-courts.
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