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To: maggief; GAgal; JLS; xoxoxox

More...[hasn't the name Allen been mentioned on one of these threads]
http://www.thetimesnews.com/power_brokers/jb_allen.php
[excerpted]

By Brandee Hayhurst
Times-News

Few forget their first experience in Judge J.B. Allen Jr.’s courtroom..................

.....Though the Stager case drew national attention, Allen said the Michael Seagroves manslaughter trial was his most extraordinary experience. Durham was in an uproar after a white man shot and killed a black teenager who broke into his garage. Seagroves said he was protecting his family. Allen and most everyone else involved in the trial faced death threats.

“It ended up the jury hung up, which was the best thing that could have happened to Durham,” Allen said. “You could just feel the emotions in the courtroom down there, the hatred.”

As soon as the trial ended, the Durham County sheriff and an SBI agent escorted Allen to the county line. North Carolina legislators later passed a “defense of habitation” law in response to the case......

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xoxoxox many of your earlier posts are beginning to tie in together. Durham is a cesspool of corruption it seems and when the lights go out, they are all in bed together.


315 posted on 06/20/2006 7:35:58 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
This sentence from my post deserves it's own post....

“It ended up the jury hung up, which was the best thing that could have happened to Durham,” Allen said. “You could just feel the emotions in the courtroom down there, the hatred.”

316 posted on 06/20/2006 7:37:23 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

When was this published?


322 posted on 06/20/2006 8:11:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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