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CHARGED WITH CHILD MOLESTATION
A six-man, six-woman jury
this morning will continue
deliberating the fate of a
63-year-old Chattooga County
minister charged with child
molestation.
The panel began its
deliberations about 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday in the case OIPLhe
Rev. Luther Lee Parker after a
two-day trial that featured
testimony by Parker as well as
by the alleged 11-year-old
victim,
The jury was recessed at
about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday
and told to return to court at
9 a.m. today.
Parker had been charged
with child molestation in con
nection with an incident on
May 5. 1986, at Ebenezer Bap
tist Church, where Parker was
the pastor. The church is
located on Haywood Valley
Road in eastern Chattooga
County.
GRILLED
Bobby Lee Cook Sr.,
Parker's defense attorney,
grilled law enforcement officers
connected with the case about
statements made by Parker
during the investigation last
May. Parker also testified
Wednesday afternoon that he
had not molested the 11-year
old or another youngster in
1984,
David Dunn, chief assistant
district attorney for the
L.ookout Mountain Judicial
Circuit, prosecuted the case
and attempted to show that
Parker had made the
statements voluntarily.
Judge Joseph “Bo" Log
gins presided in the trial, which
was the second child molesta
tion case in two weeks.
HEARINGS
Much of Tuesday afternoon
was taken up with hearings
outside the jury's presence con
cerning statements made by
Parker to Claude Nix and
Lewis Evans of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation (GBI)
last May. Judge Loggins ruled
that Parker's statements were
made voluntarily. Dunn in
troduced the statements into
evidence Wednesday over
Cook's objections.
Much of the testimony by
Nix and Evans before the jury
Wednesday morning went over
the same ground covered in the
hearings Tuesday afternoon.
,Cook -attempted -to show
that Parkef was coerced into
making statements to the GBI
agents and that they continued
to question him after he had
asked for legal representation
on several occasions. The
defense attorney cited
testimony and a written sum
mary by Deborah Rogers,
formerly of the Chattooga
Department of Family and
Children Services, that Parker
had asked for an attorney dur
ing questioning by Nix at the
Chattooga Sheriff's Office on
May 15, 1986. Dunn, on the
other hand, attempted to show
that any comment by Parker
about legal representation in
volved only specific questions
and that the preacher didn't
ask for a lawyer to be present
during the questioning by Nix
or Evans. e
Nix and Fvans denied that
Parker had ever asked for an
attorney or had asked that the
questioning be halted.
MISTRIAL ASKED
Cook at midafternoon
Wednesday asked for a
mistrial in the case when Dunn
asked Parker whether he had
been taken to the GBl's
Calhoun office to take a
polygraph examination.
“Okay, that's it,” Cook said
as soon as Dunn asked the
question and Parker had
responded in the affirmative.
| have a motion to make."
Judge Loggins ordered the
jury to leave the courtroom to
hear arguments by Cook and
Dunn. S
.Cook contended that Dunn
had improperly and deliberate
ly introduced the polygraph
issue, saying that a mistrial
c<hould be granted and
.. this young man (Dunn)
should be dealt with according-
Iv'' by the court.
POLYGRAPH
Dunn said results of a
polygraph were not admissible
but that court decisions allow
ed use of the fact that an ex
amination had been ad
ministered under certain cir
cumstances. The assistant
district attorney contended
that Cook's cross-examination
of Evans and Nix had implied
“that the defendant (Parker)
was subjected to some type of
third degree’ at the Calfioun
(1B office. His question was to
rebut Cook's line of question
ing, Dunn said.
Cook said he had never ask
ed a question about the
polygraph or alluded to the ex
amination, saying courts had
ruled that it is scientifically
unreliable.”
Dunn mentioning the
polygraph examination of
Parker was ‘“like throwing a
skunk in the jury box and tell
ing them that they didn't smell
it,” Cook said.
Judge Loggins ruled
against Cook's re(}uesL for a
luistrial and when the jury was
brought back to the courtroom,
Jury Deliberating Fate Of Accused Minister
Loggins pointed out that
polygraph results cannot be
mentioned and that the jurors
couldn't speculate about the
result during their
deliberations.
During direct questioning
by Cook, the Rev. Parker
denied molesting the 11-year
old girl last May or another
youngster several years
previously.
“CONFUSED”
“I was still confused over |
what was going on' when he |
was being questioned by Nix at |
the Chattooga Sheriff's Office |
last May, Parker testified.
When Nix read him his con- |
stitutional rights, the minister |
said, "'l really didn't know why |
I was there.” Parker testified |
that he had asked for an at- |
torney ‘‘more than once” dur- |
ing the questioning but that |
Nix had told him if he had |
nothing to hide, he shouldn't |
mind talking with him about |
the case.
Nix didn't ask him if he |
wanted anything to eat enroute
to Calhoun and he didn't have |
anything to eat all that day, |
the minister said. Nix had
testified otherwise.
At the Calhoun GBI office,
! was called a child-molesting |
liar,”" Parker testified.
Referring to statements
about the molestation in
cidents, Parker told Cook from
the stand, '‘These are not my |
statements that 1 signed.
These ‘are Mr. Nixs
statements given to me ... "
Parker flatly denied
molesting the victim in the
criminal case or another girl
who testified Tuesday in the
case. He said he and his wife
still babysit with the alleged
victim's 16 or 17-month old
sister about five days per week.
The minister also indicated
that he was coerced by Nix at
the Chattooga Sheriff's Office
by the GBI agent rolling his
chair close to Parker and smok
ing a pipe. "'That’s why I back
ed off and asked him to get out
of my face,” he testified.
Asked by Dunn during
cross-examination whether he
had first said in statements at
the sheriff's office that he “‘ac
cidently” touched the alleged
victim while teaching her to
drive, Parker replied, I said 1
may have.”
Dunn also asked Parker
whether the minister had first
said he accidently touched the
breast of the victim while at
Ebenezer Church, Parker said,
**l said it might have but I was
not knowlecheable about it. |
deny that it did happen.
There's some question there.
don’t know it if I did.”
Dunn also asked the
minister about part of his
statement where ge indicated
his pants may have been unzip
ped during a ‘‘driving lesson”
with another girl several years
ago.
“Did that happen?” Dunn
asked.
“No sir!” Parker replied.
Asked why the alleged vic
tim would make accusations
against him, Parker said, *“This
I don't know."
Asked about a signed se- ‘
cond statement Nix and Evans |
testified that Parker made at |
the Calhoun GBI office last |
May in which the minister ad- |
mitted touching two girls in in- |
timate locations on their |
bodies, Parker said he didn't |
read the statement before sign- |
g b However, he ‘
acknowledged that Nix read
the statement to him before it ‘
was signed. ;
“NERVOUS”
“At that time as | stated
before, I was in a nervous state
and I don't deny that Mr. Nix
read that statement to me, but
I do deny molesting these girls
at any time,"’ Parker testified.
He added, **At that time, my
nervous system was complete
ly gone and it didn't matter
what they did or said.”
Dunn asked Parker about
the portion of the signed state
ment where he indicated he
needed ‘“‘help” for “‘my pro
blem."
“That's what they told
me,”’ Parker said.
Dunn asked if the minister
had told the GBI agents about
his “problem,’” Parker said,
“I'mnot sure . .. It's possible
but I don't know that I did.”
The preacher said he may have
been referrinj; to his heart and
nervous conditions.
Parker's testimony ended
the defense case, whicf‘: includ
ed hearing from 13 character
witnesses, including several
ministers.
The prosecution rested its
case at 11:14 a.m. Wednesday
and Cook began his case at
11:32 a.m. Court recessed for
lunch from 12:15 until 1:30
p.m. The defense rested its case
at 2:45 p.m.
After concluding argu
ments by the prosecution and
defense, the case went to the
jury.
OPENING
Asst. Dist. Atty. Dunn told
the jury in his opening state-
DENIAL
NOT SURE
RESTED
ment late Tuesday morning
that the prosecution would at
tempt to show that Parker had
touched the-then 11-year-old
%irl in a sexual manner at a
“hattooga church on May 5,
1986. Dunn said the girl ran
from the church to a nearby
house to seek help.
Cook, however, told the
jury that Parker was presum
ed innocent of the charges un
til proven guilty by the state,
Parker denies molesting the
girl, the noted Summcrvfile at
torney told the jury. Cook said
the girl had psychological pro
blems prior to the alleged May
incident and on one occasion
claimed that her natural
mother had engaged in lesbian
acts.
In addition, Cook said in his
opening statement, the vic
tim's stepmother and father
had allowed the Rev. Parker
and his wife to babysit the
flr]'s infant sister after the
ay 5 incident. Cook said the
couple wouldn't have trusted
Parfier with the child had her
sister really been molested.
HAYWOOD VALLEY
A Haywood Valley woman
testified that the 11-year-old
girl came to her house in late
afternoon on May 5 asking to
use a telephone to call her step
mother. The woman said that
since she didn't have a
telephone, she carried the vic
tim to a neighbor's house.
The prosecution witness
said the girl told her that
Parker had put his hands on
her body whire sorting through
some papers at Ebenezer Bap
tist Church and had tried to
force her to touch him.
The woman said she carried
the child to Tidings Store
where she met her stepmother.
There was some initial con
fusion about where the alleged
incident took place with Cook
saying Dunn was not from
Chattooga and didn't know
landmarks in the county.
Dunn'’s redirect examination of
the witness clarified that it
allegedly took place at
Ebenezer Church, rather than
at Welcome Hill Baptist
Church near Trion, which
Parker once pastored.
CLEARED
After lunch Tuesday, the
prosecution called the alleged
victim to the stand. In accor
dance with Georgia law, the
courtroom was cleared of
everyone not directly related to
the case except for the news
media.
She testified that she had
known Parker since he began
preaching at Welcome Hill
Baptist Church. She added
that he had resigned and
started preaching at Ebenezer.
During the youngster’s
testimony, the balding Parker
looked alternately at the girl,
Dunn or his attorney, Cook, or
the ceiling.
Parker began showing her
how to drive at age 11, the
child said, and when Dunn ask
ed her about conversations in
volving Parker during those
drives, she began crying.
Parker discussed her
breasts and told a story about
prostitutes, she related during
Dunn’s questioning.
“TRUSTED”
“The first time he talked
about it, I thought he'd get out
of it ... " she testified. ‘"He
was somebody . trusted and
everybody else trusted.”
On a second drive, Parker
kept trying to touch her
breasts and she kept pushing
his hands away, the youngster
testified. She didn’t report the
incident at the time because "'
was just scared,” and didn't
think anyone would take her
word over that of a preacher. "1
didn't know what was going on
and [ was confused.”
On May 5 of last year,
Parker said he needed her to
help sort some boxes at
Ebenezer Church, the
youngster said. She testified
that she tried to keep from go
ing with the preacher by say
ing she had to go to her
brother's ball game but that
her stepmother had given her
permission to go to the church
with Parker. )
~ She and Parker both drove
his pickup truck to the church,
she testified.
“JERKED AWAY"
While going through some
of the boxes at the church,
Parker kept trying to “‘jerk”
her into his lap, and ‘I kept
jerking away," the youngster
testified. Once, she said, she
yelled at him, **What are you
trying to do?!" Parker didn't
reply, she testified but **he just
smiled at me crazy-like.”
Parker molested her when
he pulled her onto his lap, she
testified. When Parker went to
the restroom in the church, she
fled out the door and ran to a
house to seek assistance, the
now 12-year-old said on the
stand.
When her stepmother arriv
ed at Tidings Store where the
Haywood Valley resident had
taken her, the youngster said
she told what had happened.
During cross-examination
by Cook, the youngster
acknowledged that her parents
had allowed her infant sister to
be babysat by the Parkers
since the incident last May.
The youngster also conceded
she had watched ‘‘Police
Academy [l'" and ‘'Police
Academy I 1,"" and also watch
ed Home Box Office on
television,
HOMOSEXUAL?
The youngster also said she
had visited her natural mother
last year and thinks her mother
is “gay' or homosexual. She
also acknowledged under
Cook's questioning that she
had been talking to a
psychiatrist about her
problems.
Parker "jerked’’ her into his
lap between three and five
times at Ebenezer, she asserted
during her testimony, and tried
to nm%(e her touch his genitals.
At Welcome Hill Church,
she told an acquaintance about
the incident and the friend told
her Parker had attempted
similar acts a couple of years
hefore, the youngster testified.
Judge Loggins sent the
jury out of the courtroom dur
ing a hearing on whether the
alleged acts by Parker with the
victim's friend constituted a
“similar transaction” and if the
friend could testify before the
jury.
The preacher tried to
molest her when she was 11,
said the now 14-year-old girl.
Parker would allow her to drive
and once asked her if she knew
about sexual intercourse, the
girl testified during the
hearing.
“OPEN”
“We were open to each
other,” she testified. **We could
talk about anything . . . I real
ly don't know why he tried to
touch me but he did.”
When Parker allegedly at
tempted to touch her, I kept
on knocking him, I guess you'd
call it and I swerved the car,”
she testified. Parker also unzip-
Eed his pants and tried to make
er look at him, she added, but
she refused to do so.
Under cross-examination
by Cook, the 14-year-old friend
said a pending indictment
against Parker involving her
was not accurate if it said she
had seen his genitals or that he
had actually touched her in the
spring, 1984.
Cook said the “‘notice of a
similar transaction’ from the
prosecution had referred to
“numerous’’ incidents involv
ing the older girl and he asked
Judge Log%]ins to ask the pro
secution where the language
originated.
NOTICE
Asst. Dist. Atty. Dunn said
the “‘notice” was based on a
May 15, 1986 statement by
Parker to the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation where Parker
allegedly said he had touched
the youngster during a “‘driv
ing lesson.”
Cook said the girl had just
testified that Parker had never
touched her and that she had
never seen his genitals.
He asked the 14-year-old if
a reiort by a former staff
member with the Chattooga
Department of Family and
Children Services (DFCS) was
false if it said Parker had
touched her and that she had
seen his genitals.
“Yes, ' she replied.
CRYING
The teen-ager began crying
when Cook asked her what she
and Parker talked about and
when he asked if she and the
alleged victim in this week's
case had gotten together and
fabricated their stories.
**No, I have not!" she said.
Cook first moved that the
14-year-old's testimony not be
allowed and then with(f;ew the
motion. Dunn told the judge
that language of the “‘notice”
was an attempt to describe the
most serious alleged actions
and statements by Parker.
The jury returned to the
courtroom from a recess at 3:09
p.m. Tuesday.
The Bth grader told the jury
that Parker *‘was more like my
grandfather”” before the alleg
ed 1984 incident.
Parker told her that pre
marital sex was wrong, told her
about *‘the birds and bees and
stuff’ and asked when her
menstrual period began, she
told the jury in a courtroom
cleared of spectators.
UNZIPPED
After Parker attempted to
touch her without success, she
said, the preacher said he knew
the situation bothered her and
he wouldn't do it again. Prior
to that statement, however,
she said he unzipped his pants
and told her to look at him but
she said she refused. The
preacher then asked if she had
ever seen male genitals, the
teen testified, anfi she replied
she had in movies.
After that drive, ** . . . I lost
interest in being around him,”
she said. :
The teen began crying dur
ing questioning and repeated
that Parker had been like a
grandfather to her. ‘“To this
day, I still love him but I don't
appreciate what he did,” she
added. L
Referring to the alleged vic
tim in this week's case, 51e teen
noted, ““We weren't the best of
friends. 1 couldn't stand
her ... T just thoufht she was
alittle brat; just a little smart
mouth, She had to have her
way all the time.”' The
| youngster asked the teen about
\ her earlier relationship with
Parker at church and the
14-year-old said she replied,
“He tried to molest me
|
“STACK-UP"
During cross-examination
by Cook, the 14-year-old said
she and the victim in this
week's case weren't the best of
friends. “'She was really a
stuck-up snob to me."”
However, she said youngsters
“fight" and constantly make
up at their age. She denied
fabricating their stories
together, saying, *'lt is hard on
us coming.to court.’! .
Cook also suggested she
had told the Dl“gS represen
tative that she hac? seen
Parker’'s genitals but had
decided to “*back out’ in court.
Crying, the youngster denied
the comment.
The mother of the 14-year
old testified next for the pro
secution late Tuesday.
She noticed that her
daughter had gotten more *‘dis
tant” from Parker when she
was 11 or 12 years old, the
woman testifieg.
CONFUSED
The jury was sent out of the
courtroom for a hearing involv
ing GBI Agent Nix, w%o inter
viewed Parker about the alleg
ed incidents.
Under questioning by the
prosecution during the hearing,
Nix said Parker showed up at
the Chattooga Sheriff's Ofiice
on May 15, 1986, to discuss
possible allegations against
him. Parker seemed surprised
and ‘“‘confused’” that he was
not arrested immediately, the
agent testified. Nix said he was
tied up on other court matters
at the time and told the
preacher he'd talk with him in
about an hour.
Parker returned and
discussed the case with Nix
and Mrs. Rogers, the agent
testified.
Parker was advised of his
constitutional rights and
understood those rights but
said he preferred not to sign a
waiver g)rm. Nix said. Parker
didn’t ask for an attorney dur
ing the questioning but on one
question asked whether he
should confer with an attorney
before responding, Nix said.
The GBI agent testified that
he told Parker he couldn’t ad
vise him since Parker wasn't
under arrest.
“ACCIDENTS”
Parker's initial statement
that day indicated that he had
given driving lessons to the
14-year-old girl who testified
earlier Tuesday, Nix said. Dur
ing one of those lessons, Parker
first said his hand ‘*accidental
ly" brushed the legs of the
youngster, the agent added.
Referring to an alleged state
ment Parker made about the
Ebenezer Church incident, Nix
quoted the preacher as saying
he had ‘‘accidentally’’ touched
the 11-year-old's breasts dur
ing the sorting of some boxes.
During the “driving lesson™
with the first girl, Parker first
said his J)ants may have been
unzipfi)e but he didn’t expose
himself to the youngster, Nix
quoted the minister as saying.
Parker voluntarily submit
ted to a polygraph test, Nix
said, and he took the Chat
tooga man to the Calhoun GBI
office for the test. 7
After the polygraph test,
Parker responded to questions
from Nix and GBI agent
Evans, Nix said.
Before the May 5, 1986 in
cident, Parker said in an alleg
ed second statement read by
Nix, the minister molested the
11-year-old during a “‘driving
lesson.” The GBI agent quoted
Parker as saying, ‘I knew
what I was doing but I don't
know why I did it."”
STATEMENT
On May 5 last year at the
church, Parker admitted put
ting his arm around the
11-year-old's waist and
molesting her, adding again, ‘I
knew what 1 was doing but I
don’t know why I did it,”" Nix
read from the statement sign
ed by Parker.
Three or four years
previously, Parker had given
driving lessons to the now
14-year-old girl and had
molested her, fiix said Parker
acknowledged in the second
statement. The preacher said
he realized he needed help, the
GBI agent quoted from t?le se
cond statement signed by
Parker.
Before Cook's cross
examination, the jury was
brought into the courtroom
and excused by Judge Loggins
until 9 a.m. Wednesday. Jurors
left the courtroom at about
4:20 p.m Tuesday.
Under fierce cross
examination by attorney Cook,
Nix said he di({n‘t recall Parker
saying he would rather have an
attorney present before talking
with the GBI agent. Nix said
he would have terminated the
interview if Parker had made
such a statement.
TAPED?
Cook asked why Parker's
statement wasn't tape-
recorded and Nix replied it was
GBI policy not to ta;{)e such
statements because of inade
quate secretarial help to
transcribe the tapes.
The Summerville attorney
asked Nix if it was GBI policy
for an agent to write down
“what he wants to" in the
agent's own words and not in
Parker's words. The agent
denied that was the case.
Calling agent Evans “‘the
Sherlock filolmes of Northwest
Georgia,” Cook asked Nix if
Evans was present during the
Calhoun interview of Parker.
Nix said Evans was present.
Cook then described the
agents’ work as "‘this Mutt and
Jeff act.”
Cook also attempted to
show that Parker wasn't given
anything to eat during the day
lor:i; interviews at Summerville
and Calhoun. Nix testified later
he had offered to get lunch for
Parker enroute to Calhoun but
the offer was declined.
EXPLAIN?
The attorney asked how
Nix ‘‘squared’” the 14-year
old's testimony Tuesday that
she had never been touched by
Parker with Parker's state
ment that he had touched her.
“It doesn’'t make a lick of
sense does it?"’ Cook asked.
“Not as you stated it, no
sir,” Nix replied.
The GBI agent was em
phatic that Parker had not ask
ed for an attorney during ques
tioning. If Mrs. Rogers o? the
DFCS made that statement,
Nix said, ‘‘she’s incorrect.”
Cook also questioned Nix
about Parker's ‘‘confusion”
when he arrived at the sheriff's
office last May 15. The GBI
afient said Parker apfieared “in
shock ™ or confused that he was
not immediately arrested.
Under re-direct examination by
Asst. Dist. Atty. Dunn, Nix
said Parker was not in a con
fused mental state during the
interviews. After being ques
tioned again by Cook, b?ix said
he may have ““possibly” used a
poor choice of words when he
said Parker was “‘shocked’ at
not being arrested immediate
ly on May 15.
Dunn called GBI Agent
Evans to the stand at 4:50 p.m.
Tuesday.
NO RELUCTANCE
Evans said Parker's rights
were explained to him once
again at Calhoun and the
minister never asked for an at
torney or indicated a reluc
tance to discuss the case.
Under cross-examination
from Cook, Evans said Parker
first denied molesting either
girl or exposing himself to one
of the youngsters but later said
he had committed both acts.
Cook said Parker's denials
weren't indicated on a written
summary of the Calhoun inter
view prepared by Agent Nix,
only the admissions. ;
The defense attorney also
read Ms. Rogers' statement
that quoted Parker as saying
he wanted an attorney before
proceeding further in the inter
views and quoted Nix as say
ing he only wanted to get
Parker's side of the story and
that the minister hadn’'t been
charged with a crime.
Cook called Mrs. Rogers to
the stand. Formerly with the
Chattooga DFCS, she is now
with the Georgia Department
of Human Resources, Atlanta.
LAWYER
She read her summary
statement about the Nix inter
view with Parker on May 15 of
last year, including the part
where she said the minister
wanted a lawyer before pro
ceeding further and that he‘})lad
visitef a lawyer's office that
day but the attorney was not
in town. )
“‘He (Parker) did make that
statement,’’ Mrs. Rogers said.
Nix told Parker he could
stop the interview at any time,
she indicated, and the preacher
told the GBI agent he was con
cerned that what he said could
be used against him.
Dunn, on his cross
examination of Mrs. Rogers,
asked if Parker agreed to talk
with Nix if he could refuse to
answer certain, but not all,
questions. Mrs. Rogers said
that was her understanding.
DROPOUT
Parker, an Bth grade
dropout who received four
years of ministerial training
from the Mercer University
Extension Center, said before
the Nix interview .that he
wanted a lawyer because he
was concerned that what he
said could be used against him,
Mrs. Rogers indicated after be
ing questioned further by
Cook.
The attorney asked that the
statements by Parker not be
allowed in evidence because
Parker had wanted an attorney
and the GLI agent continued
the interview despite the
minister’s reluctance.
After studying the issue,
Judge Loggins luled that
Parker's statements were
voluntary and that he wvas not
in custody when making the
comments. The minister was
also advised of his rights and
waived those rights althouih
he had some reservations, the
judge said. Parker agreed to be
The Summerville News, Thursday, March 5, 1987
interviewed provided he could
decline to answer some ques
tions, Loggins indicated in his
rulinfi.
The case was recessed at
5:40 p.m, Tuesday until 9 a.m.
Wednesday. Jugge Loggins
asked Sheriff Gary McConnell
and Clerk of Court Lann Cor
dle to. reach as many non-
Parker trial jurors as possible
to ask them to report at 9 a.m.
today rather than at 9 a.m.
Wednesday.
INNOCENT
Jeffrey B. Hines, who had
been charged with burglary in
connection with a late summer, |
1986 incident, was found inno- |
cent lfi' a six-man, six-woman |
jury Monday afternoon in the |
first trial of this week's session |
of criminal court.
James Allen Pierce, Hines
co-defendant in the case, had
pled guilty Monday and was
sentenced to seven years with |
five of those years in prison.
Hines' attorney was
Kristina Cook Connelly,
Summerville.
LAST WEEK
In action late last week, a
jury acquitted Bill Henry *‘Lit
tle Bill'" Adams, 23, 410-B
Third Ave., Summerville on
charges he violated the
Georgia Controlled Substances
Act (GCSA). Adams was one of
16 people arrested last
December after a six-month
undercover investigation by
the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation and the Chattooga
Sheriff's Office.
Adams’ jury deliberated for
around IYz hours before fin
ding him innocent of the
charges shortly after lunch on
Thursday. Feb. 26.
A jury was also selected
Thursday in the drug case of
Gene Hampton, 26, Welcome
Hill* Road, Trion, who was
charged in the same roundup
as Adams last December.
However, before his case could
be tried, Hampton changed his
plea from innocent to guilty.
Judge Loggins sentenced
Hampton to five years proba
tion and he was also ordered to
pay a $5,000 fine. Hampton
had been charged with selling
marijuana to an undercover
agent on Aug. 16, 1986.
REVOKED
A probation revocation
hearing also was held late
Thursday for Michael
Whitehead, 34, Old Highway
27, Trion, another of those ar
rested last December during
the drug raids. A mistrial was
declare§ in Whitehead's case
on Wednesday, Feb. 25, after a
GBI undercover agent in her
testimony quoted Whitehead
as having referred to a
previous ‘‘bust.” Judge Log
gins also granted a motion by
Whitehead's attorney that try
ing Whitehead again on the
charges would constitute dou
ble jeopardy.
However, after the proba
tion revocation hearing, Judge
Loggins revoked Whitehead's
probation from a previous
charge and ordered him to
serve the rest of his sentence in
prison.
A jury deliberated about 15
minutes last Friday afternoon
before convicting Mark
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McGuire, 30, Bankston
Avenue, Summerville, on two
counts of violating the GCSA.
McGuire was one of the 16 ar
rested last December on drug
charges. Judge Loggins
sentenced McGuire to 15 years
with 10 to be served in prison
on each count, both to be serv
ed concurrently.
Lockheed
Aids State
Businesses
Lockheed-Georgia Com-
Fany's commitment to Georgia
husinesses resulted in a
$162-million boost to the
state's economy during 1986.
Of the 2,203 Georgia firms
receiving contracts from
Lockheetf—Georgia, 1,694 were
classified as small businesses.
Small businesses received
$54.3-million in contracts in
1986. These were manufactur
ing companies which employed
less than 500 people or service
firms that had not exceeded
specific sales dollar volumes.
In addition to the contrac
ting activity, Lockheed-
Geor%ia employed over 19,000
people and Froduced an
average weekly payroll of
$11.5-million.
Lockheed-Georgia con
tinued C-130/L-100 Hercules
production and several aircraft
modification programs in 1986.
The company also delivered
eight C-5g strategic airlifters
to the U. S. Air Force last year.
The production schedule calls
for the delivery of 12 C-5 air
craft in 1987, 24 in 1988, and
five in 1989.
Walker Tech
.
Has Openings
In Classes
Walker Area Technical
School has openings for the
spring quarter which begins
March 25. Registration for new
students is March 18 for day
classes. Evening school
registration for new students is
3-91?.m. March 16-19.
. There are openings in the
following courses: accounting,
auto body, auto mechanics,
business education, electronics,
data processing. drafting,
cosmetology, industrial elec
trical maintenance, heating
and air conditioning, practical
nursing, welding, retail
marketing and machine tool.
For more information, call
756-1286.
Masonry Course
Coosa Valley Tech will offer
a Masonry Theory I class. It is
a 40-hour class that presents
the history of brick manufac
turing, use of brick-layin
tools, characteristics of bricE
laying, and workmanship.
Classes will meet Mondays
and Tuesdays from 6 until 10
p.m., beginning March 30, and
ending June 15. The cost is $57
plus books.
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