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Title: Charges dropped in black man’s dragging death
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URL Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/200 ... -in-black-mans-dragging-death/
Published: Jun 4, 2009
Author: AP
Post Date: 2009-06-04 19:57:50 by Jethro Tull
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Comments: 12
Charges dropped in black man’s dragging death The Associated Press Thu, Jun 4, 2009 (4:18 p.m.) Murder charges were dropped at the prosecution's request Thursday in the dragging death of a black man in east Texas, and the two white men who had been accused of killing him were released from jail. Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley were released Thursday afternoon in Paris after a judge granted the special prosecutor's motion to dismiss the case. The two men had been charged with fatally striking 24-year-old Brandon McClelland with a pickup truck in September following a late-night beer run the three friends had made to Oklahoma. The case had been unraveling in recent months because of a lack of eyewitnesses and physical evidence. Last month, a gravel truck driver gave a sworn statement acknowledging he might have accidentally run over McClelland. "After investigation, it has been determined this case should be dismissed in the interests of justice," special prosecutor Toby Shook said. "The decision is about the state of the evidence in the case as it exists today." Shook said the investigation will continue. The gravel truck driver is unlikely to face charges. Finley's trial had been scheduled to begin next month, with Crostley's to follow in September. "I believed all along there was insufficiency of the evidence," said Ben Massar, Finley's attorney. "The facts in this case did not add up to these two kids being guilty of the charge." "I think it's very simple," said David Turner, Crostley's lawyer. "These fellows didn't do it." Finley and Crostley had been unable to post their bonds and had remained in jail since being arrested last year. "He was very happy. He knew that this was going to happen," Massar (muh-SAR') said of Finley. "He was a little disappointed it took so long, but he was very grateful." Authorities have said Finley, Crostley and McClelland were friends who drove across the Oklahoma state line for beer in September. They argued on the way back about whether Finley was too drunk to drive, and McClelland got out of the car to walk home. Authorities had alleged that Finley then ran down McClelland, whose body was caught under the truck and dragged about 70 feet. His mangled body was found along a country road. The racial implications of the case reminded some of the murder of James Byrd, who was chained by the ankles to the bumper of a pickup truck and dragged to death in 1998 in the east Texas town of Jasper. Three white men were convicted of killing him; two are on death row and the other is serving a life term. McClelland's death brought out protesters from the Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party. A rally last year also attracted at least one acknowledged member of the Ku Klux Klan to Paris, about 90 miles northeast of Dallas. "Hopefully this will go some distance in healing race relations in Paris," Turner said. "It was not motivated by race or any criminal intent. It was just a tragic accident."
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#1. To: All (#0)
Jesus. Hang the white devils with no evidence other than speculation and let them rot in jail. Typical MO of the LegalIndustrialComplex. Had the gravel truck driver never come forward, THESE GUYS WOULD NEVER AGAIN HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY. How many other innocents are rotting in jail? Well, about a million I'd say just for marijuana alone.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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Did you listen to the ignorant black bitch in the 'tube? She's so dopey, it's funny :P
Bullshit. The Paris niggers are the worst in the state, even worse than the ones in Houston. I go over to Paris about once every other month and I make sure that I have TWO pistols in my truck cab, it's that bad there.
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I'll match that Paris coon, and bump you a Bed Sty buck.
Pay-per-view: Red River Nigger vs Northern Silverback. Rules: death-match, homemade knives only, no rusty .38's allowed, anything else goes :-o
_________________________________________________________________________ Oh for fucks sake. I could not listen to that crap past the 40 second mark. I just didn't have it in me. .
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I think I've been thru Paris. Nothing struck me as being out of the ordinary, but that isn't to say things are good there either. But nothing I've seen can hold a candle to E St Louis. Not even Compton. Compton in the day isn't bad. E. St. Louis is bad in the daytime. .
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No real need to listen to the entire tube. It's enough to say she's a typical, ignorant, ugly, black racist, who is empowered by the ADL, SPLC and white guilters. And did I mention the case against the two white guys really sucked? How the system could continue to bring forward a charge like this when no DNA was found on the under carriage of the truck, speaks to the power these INTIMIDATORS have on the system. I'd bet people like here are SO DOPEY, they continue to believe the dude was dragged to death intentionally.
Sure. They'll never admit they are wrong about anything. Once something works its way into their tiny little brain, that is where it will stay. .
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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Finley and Crostley had been unable to post their bonds and had remained in jail since being arrested last year.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
long a country road.
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...that's Turtle Island.
#4. To: IndieTX (#2)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"Hopefully this will go some distance in healing race relations in Paris," Turner said
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: Turtle (#3)
#7. To: X-15 (#5)
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#7)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
#10. To: X-15 (#5)
Bullshit. The Paris niggers are the worst in the state, even worse than the ones in Houston. I go over to Paris about once every other month and I make sure that I have TWO pistols in my truck cab, it's that bad there.
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
#11. To: PSUSA (#9)
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
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