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To: jlallen who wrote (37372)	6/29/2005 5:25:58 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

no, I don't, it wont bring him back old case lovers should love this one, they are opening a 50 year old case The current -- some of the current cases that are being looked at on a local level, you have the Emmett Till case in Mississippi is probably the most prominent one, who was, of course, killed in 1955, after allegedly wolf whistling at a white woman, you know. It's just -- just one of those cases, it's just hard to believe today that the two guys who did it -- and of course, there were others involved, too -- were acquitted in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted them -- acquitted them, and then, of course, months later they confessed the whole thing and said, “Oh yeah, we did it.” But there were other people who were involved in that, and there's no question about that. So that’s what they're looking at now, are there other people who could possibly be prosecuted. In that case, they've recently exhumed the body, done an autopsy, apparently found some bullet fragments. They are going to be testing for the DNA, as well, to verify in fact that's Emmett Till. I don't think there's really a question about that. But in a court of law, you have to prove these things. And that was one of the things that the jury, the all-white jury when they came back said, ‘Oh, well, the state didn't prove it was his body,’ which was crazy, because they proved it. The defense never, you know, disputed that, really.