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JASPER (AP) — The last of
three dragging death defendants
goes on trial today, and jurors in
Jasper County will be asked to
choose which is the real Shawn
Allen Berry — a hometown boy
who was in the wrong place with
the wrong people, or a thrill-seek
ing killer who got caught up in a
frenzy of racist rage.
Jury selection for Berry’s capi
tal trial in the killing of James
Byrd Jr. begins today, prefacing a
trial which promises to be much
different than the previous two.
Berry is charged with the same
horrific and racially-charged
crime for which his two co-defen
dants and roommates, John
William King and Lawrence Rus
sell Brewer, were convicted and
sent to death row.
The three white men were ac
cused of murdering Byrd, a 49-
year-old partially disabled black
man, by chaining him to the
bumper of Berry’s pickup truck
and dragging him over three miles
of a bumpy country road on June
7, 1998. Byrd’s body, with the
head, neck and right arm torn off,
was found on a road northeast of
Jasper a few hours later.
Five hundred jurors were ini
tially summoned, and 150 to 200
are expected to appear in state
District Judge Joe Bob Golden’s
court for the start of selection to
day. Attorneys must cull a panel
of 14 from the group, 12 jurors
and two alternates.
Berry, a native son whose fam
ily roots are three generations
deep in Jasper, asked to be tried
in his home town, hoping that a
jury of his peers and neighbors
will be sympathetic to him.
“I don’t know whether he is a good
person at all, but 1 know he is better
than those other two.” Betty Hamil
ton, a retiree who lives in Jasper, said.
“He is not a racist like the others."
That will make proving a racist
motive difficult, prosecutors ac
knowledge.
“Motive in this case is either
one of two things: he lived with
these klansmen and developed
their way of thinking, or he’s a
thrillseeker who got caught up in
the killing like he was in a pack of
dogs,” Jasper County District At
torney Guy James Gray said.
Berry’s co-defendants were
easy to paint as racist killers. Both
were ex-convicts and adorned
with white-supremacist tattoos.
'7 don't know whether
he is a good person ...
but I know [Shawn
Allen Berry] is better
than those other two."
— Betty Hamilton
Jasper resident
King and Brewer had joined a
Ku Klux Klan splinter gang, the
Confederate Knights of America,
while in prison together and pros
ecutors used the tattoos as proof
of King’s and Brewer’s racist be
liefs. Both men wore a patch of
their gang that showed a burning
cross and Confederate flag, and
King had an image of a hanging
black man.
The prosecution also intro
duced letters by King and Brewer,
filled with racist language, to
prove the men had motive to kill
a black man.
But Berry’s tattoos — a Play
boy bunny and a four-leaf clover
among them — are less threaten
ing, and there are no racist
screeds to show the jury.
Gray said he is unconcerned.
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motive in this case:
scene facts, maybean
more on this one,”ti
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crime scene.”
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forcement officers and two civil
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ey and cocaine last week.
Charges against the six men,
three of them brothers, were filed
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Houston police officer Frank Fer
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facture or possession of a controlled
substance and burglary; Pasadena
city marshal’s deputy Keith E. Wag
ner, 39, was charged with manufac
ture or delivery of a controlled sub
stance, theft and burglary;
TYoy Douglas South, 37, a
Pasadena marshal’s deputy, and
Daniel Charles Wagner, 33, a re
serve deputy with the Pasadena
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charged with manufacture or de
livery of a controlled substance.
In addition to the officers,
Michael Joe Wagner, 38, and Jon
Eric Gibson, also 38, were each
charged with theft, burglary and
manufacture or delivery of a con
trolled substance.
All were charged in the 179th
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