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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 11,1975
Bolton studies going
for another Dean trial
ATLANTA (UPI) - Prosecu
tors are considering re-trying
state Sen. Roscoe Dean, whose
trial on charges of padding his
expense account ended in a
hung jury, but won’t make a
decision on a new trial for
several months.
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Deputy Attorney General
Robert Stubbs, chief prosecutor
in the case, said Wednesday it
was “fair to say that we
certainly are considering the
possibility of a new trial,” but
Attorney General Arthur Bolton
will not make a decision for
several months.
“I’m over my frustration,
disappointment, exasperation,
cynicism and all,” said Stubbs.
“There’s no sense rushing into
it. I really don’t know when the
decision might be made. We
have to review all the evidence
and decide what we should
have put in that we didn’t, or
what we shouldn’t have put in
that we did.”
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Charles Wofford declared
a mistrial in the case Tuesday
night when a jury deadlocked 9-
3 in favor of acquittal after 12
hours of deliberations.
Dean was charged with
taking $1,424 in mileage pay
ments for Senate business trips
which he admits he never
made. The Jesup Democrat
contended the law did not
require him personally to make
the trips and an aide or
secretary could have traveled
the claimed mileage.
Stubbs said Dean cannot be
retried while the General
Assembly is in session and
since the legislature convenes
Jan. 12, no trial would be
possible until at least March.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, presiding
officer of the Senate, called the
verdict “unfortunate” but said
he will not try to unseat Dean.
Miller, who had initially
requested the investigation of
Dean’s travel claims, said he is
willing to leave the re-trial
decision to Bolton and Stubbs.
“I have not discussed the
matter with any senators as to
what, if any, action they feel
the Senate should take and I do
not intend to initiate any
action,” said Miller.
Oil producers
oppose bill
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)
— A group representing oil
producers from 36 states has
asked President Ford to veto
energy legislation they say
would be an “unmitigated
economic disaster for our
nation.”
The Interstate Oil Compact
Commission, representing 99
per cent of all U.S. oil
producers, wound up three days
of meetings here Wednesday
with a telegram to President
Ford asking that the proposed
Energy Conservation and Poli
cy Act of 1975 not be signed
into legislation.
The group said the legisla
tion, now pending in Congress,
would “reduce domestic pro
duction of oil and gas by
discouraging maximum pri
mary production from existing
fields...as well as inhibit future
commitments for expansion of
drilling on the Alaskan North
Slope.”
Incoming chairman of IOCC,
Texas Gov. Dolph Brisoce, said
“it is time we stopped playing
political football with the
energy crisis. Energy is neither
a Republican issue nor a
Democratic issue,” he said. “It
is an American issue which
affects the lives of all of us.”
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Patty Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woody Smith, and
Andrea Nolan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Nolan,
put final touches to the Chrismon tree at Hanleiter United
Methodist Church. The United Methodist Women of
Army drops court martial of Griffin
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference says the U.S. Army
has called off the court martial
of a soldier stationed at Ft
Benning because the SCLC
complained the soldier was a
victim of racism.
SCLC spokesman Tyrone
Brooks Wednesday said plans
have been dropped for the court
martial of Pfc. Jesse Griffin,
23, of Montgomery, Ala., that
had been scheduled for today.
Brooks said Griffin had been
charged with disobeying an
order, driving a car on base
Chrismon tree at Hanleiter
after his driving privileges had
been suspended and refusing to
be tested for job performance.
SCLC officials met with Ft.
Benning representatives last
week in Columbus to discuss
the civil rights organization’s
charges that Griffin was the
victim of official racial harass
ment.
Brooks said the Army
dropped the charge against
Griffin of disobeying an order,
for which he was to have been
court martialed, because the
SCLC pointed out that he had
disobeyed an “illegal order.”
Hanleiter made the 90 Chrismon decorations that
represent the 17 different Christian symbols. The tree
skirt was made by Mrs. Lewis Baker, a member of the
UMW.
Brooks said the Army would
now issue an Article 15 official
reprimand of Griffin for the
other offenses.
SCLC national president Dr.
Ralph David Abernathy called
the Army’s decision a “vic
tory” in the SCLC’s “effort to
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