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Jess Wade III, guest conductor
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Texas A& M Century Singers
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Page 6 • Thursday, November 11,1999
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Trial begins for final suspect in Byrd mur<
prosecuting attorney changes court stratejjnti
JASPER (AP) — Shawn Allen
Berry was an active participant in
the dragging death of a black East
Texas man last year and may have
been influenced by the racist beliefs
of two other white men now on
death row for the same killing, pros
ecutors said yesterday.
“Maybe some of what they were
saying rubbed off on him,” Jasper
County District Attorney Guy James
Gray said as Berry’s trial began.
“Maybe he was a thrill seeker. ...
Maybe he wanted to play with a rat
tlesnake and see what happened.”
Berry, 24, faces life in prison or
death by injection if found guilty of
capital murder in the June 7, 1998,
chaining and dragging of James
Byrd Jr.
Byrd, 49, was walking along a
Jasper County road after midnight
when he was offered a ride by
Berry, who had King and Brewer in
his truck.
The four then drove to a remote
area where a scuffle broke out. Byrd
was attached to the truck with a 24-
foot logging chain, then dragged
nearly three miles along a bumpy
country road in what authorities
said was a racist hate crime.
Byrd’s shredded and dismem
bered body was found after day
break.
“I think by the end of the case,
you’re going to decide Shawn Berry
is simply not the kind of guy that
would do something like this,”
Joseph C. “Lum” Hawthorn, Berry’s
attorney, said in opening remarks to
the jury.
The trial began yesterday after
State District Judge Joe Bob Golden
denied a defense motion to move
the trial from Jasper, about 125
miles northeast of Houston, be-
, cause of intense media coverage
and jury prejudice.
In the previous two trials, it was
near the conclusion of the testimo
ny when prosecutors showed jurors
the logging chain and played a
video that retraced the killing route.
Yesterday, however, Hawthorn
played a copy of the video the first
morning of testimony during cross
examination of a police detective.
The defense attorney also gave
jurors a look at the heavy chain, de
fusing a dramatic moment prosecu
tors had built in their cases against
King and Brewer.
Bush disputes Byrd
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A
spokesperson for Gov. George W.
Bush yesterday disputed a claim
by James Byrd Jr.’s family that he
never telephoned his condolences
or offered to attend the funeral af
ter the Jasper man was dragged to
his death behind a pickup truck.
“That’s wrong,” Bush said
yesterday in South Carolina
when asked about the family’s
claim. He said he called a mem
ber of the family and “has the ev
idence to prove it.”
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the chain because that’s going to
come up later and it will be rele
vant,” Hawthorn said, but de
clined to elaborate.
“It’s a pretty good move,” Gray
said of the chain’s early entrance.
“We really didn’t intend to rattle
the chain in this one like we did in
the first.”
Attorneys for both sides agreed
Berry lacked the same racist his
tory as King and Brewer, known
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Erroneous reports of
a shooting at an elementary school alarmed par
ents and embarrassed broadcasters who later said
they had relied on secondhand information.
The misunderstanding began when a janitor
at Coker Elementary School told police TUesday
morning that six bullets had hit his car as he drove
to work.
Francisco Flores, who said he sustained minor
injuries from shattered glass, filed the report after
arriving at the campus.
Two television stations and at least one radio
station, relying on information gleaned from
monitoring police and emergency medical service
radio transmissions, reported a shooting at the
school. One report said up to 14 students had
been hurt.
“When you consider Columbine High School
and the overenthusiasm [of local reporters], those
elements went together to result in the wrong in
formation," Victor Garcia, a spokesperson for the
North East School District said.
“We believed we had con
firmed the story, but we
were wrong. 9
— Jim Boyle
KSAT news director
Dozens of parents who heard the reports
rushed to the school, where they learned their
children were safe.
“When you hear that there was a shooting at
your daughter’s school, you age 50 years and your
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heard 14 kids had been hit by flyinggla|
went to pieces.”
Television stations KSAT and KENS,alf
radio station KTSA, took up to 15m
rect the reports.
KSAT news director Jim Boylesaidhel
thorized the report.
“We believed we had confirmed the s|
we were wrong,” he said. “Ueneedtoc-
ter job double-checking ourinfomtion.
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