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Tuesday, April 13,1982
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2 charged with bombing
Fayetteville <upi> - Two
Atlanta men suspected of bombing
Georgia's oldest courthouse apparently
to destroy court records were charged
Monday with first degree arson and
burglary, Fayette County Sheriff Ran
dall Johnson said.
The courthouse, which survived Sher
man's march and more than 150 years
of use, was damaged by fire after the
bomb exploded on the top floor of the
three-story building
Police questioned Charles E. Harris,
36, and Harry Turner, 26, through the
night Sunday before the two were
charged.
Johnson said a 3250.000 bond had been
set for Harris. Turner was hospitalized
in critical condition with bums.
Johnson said Turner was apprehended
on the courthouse square and a shirt he
wore had been "almost melted to his
body.”
Harris was arrested by deputies in
nearby Riverdale Johnson said Harris
was scheduled to stand trial Monday on
burglary charges and also was facing
several traffic violations.
The stone building, constructed in the
early 1800s, was engulfed in flames
when volunteer units from Fayetteville
and surrounding areas arrived. A depu
ty sheriff who witnessed the blast Sun
day night said it "looked like the top of
the building was coming off ."
Johnson said investigators believe
the flammable liquid used in the bomb
was gasoline but “it hasn't been tested
yet."
Firefighters were able to keep the
fire contained to the third floor and of
ficials said most of the records and se
cond floor furnishings had been saved
The building was the second historic
structure in Georgia to be torched in
less than six months. In December, the
historic McIntosh County courthouse
was firebombed and sustained about
3150,000 in damages.
Five firebombs were thrown through
windows in that blaze and officials have
not been able to charge anyone In the
case.
Court hears ethical conflict debate
State prison warden to leave in June
REIDSVILLE (UPI) -
Georgia State Prison
warden Charles Mon
tgomery will be leaving the
Reidsville facility when his
contract expires June 30 to
return to the federal prison
system, officials confirmed
Monday.
Montgomery has submit
ted his resignation, telling
his staff last week he would
be returning to the federal
corrections system, which
had "loaned" him to
Georgia
Patricia Sledge, special
assistant to the director of
the U.S. Bureau of Prisons,
said Montgomery will take
the position of associate to
the warden at the Federal
Correctional Institute at
Petersburg, Va
“He would be getting a
warden's Job if we had it,"
she said.
While Montgomery, the
sixth warden at the
Reidsville prison in a
decade, is not being
pressured to move, those
close to system said state
officials are not making a
strong move to keep him
Speculation indicates
Lansom Newsom will pro
bably succeed Mon
tgomery as head of the
maximum security prison
that Is under court order to
improve conditions.
Meanwhile, Mon
tgomery, who came to
Georgia from Safford,
Ariz., where he was
warden of a minimum-
security federal work
camp, has been credited
with making im
provements at the south
Georgia prison
State Sen. Joseph Ken
nedy, D-CIaxton, chairman
of a prisons sub- commit
tee, said "hallelujah" when
he was told Montgomery
would be leaving the state
system.
Kennedy has been openly
hostile to Montgomery
even though a court- ap
pointed monitor has
credited Montgomery with
making many im
provements at the prison
Six months before Mon- *
tgomery arrived, prison
monitor Vincent Nathan,
an Ohio lawyer, wrote a
damning critique of the
prison, citing blatant viola
tions of U.S. District Judge
Anthony Alaimo's orders
for change there. Then-
warden Charles Balkcom
resigned rather than carry
out the judge's orders.
Six months after Mon
tgomery arrived and in
subsequent reviews,
Nathan charted continued
improvements and ex
pressed optimism that the
warden would bring the
prison into complaince
with federal orderi.
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia's attorney general and his
predecessor told the State Supreme Court Monday legislators
who are lawyers have a built-in ethical conflict when
representing clients before state agency boards
A former legislative leader representing Savannah Rep.
Bobby L. Hill told the seven justices, however, that it would
be an illegal infringement of the plaintiff’s right to choose an
attorney, if lawyer-legislators were forbidden to practice
before state regulatory boards.
Attorney General Mike Bowers and former Atty. Gen.
Arthur K Bolton said Hill, a flamboyant Democrat and
former head of the Legislative Black Caucus, used his in
fluence as a legislator — whether he meant to or not — by
representing a Chatham County couple in an adoption
dispute.
The couple, Kenneth and Dorothy Sistrunk, had sued the
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Career Planning and Placement
Department of Human Resources to gain custody of a five-
year-old child. Bolton issued a legal opinion for the DHR,
saying it was a conflict of interests for Hill to represent the
Sistrunks, because as a legislator he votes on the DHR
budget and other bills affecting the department.
Bowers, who succeeded Bolton as attorney general last
year, issued a complementing opinion saying it was a conflict
for legislators to practice before state agency boards even if
they accepted no fee He and Bolton maintained that boards
might be intimidated, or potential clients might be impressed
with a legislator's implied influence.
Atlanta attorney Mike Egan, a former House minority
leader who left the Georgia General Assembly in 1977 for a
post in the U.S. Justice Department, said Bolton and Bowers
besmirched the ethics of all legislators by Implying there was
something wrong with Hill's representation of the Sistrunks.
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