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CHARLESTON (AP) ? The convictior
of 20-year-old Ross Clayton Green in th(
slaying of a white Charleston Count)
patrolman and wounding of another white
officer brought anger and shock from loca
uiav^iva.
"It is felt that Green didn't get a fair dea
because of his color," said John Allston
president of the Sea Island National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colore<
People.
"We, the NAACP, will continue to worl
with the Green family all the way to the U.S
Supreme Court if necessary," he said. "Bu
we were looking for a different verdict."
A JURY of three blacks and nine white
Saturday convicted Green in a retrial into th
Oct. 29 shooting death of Patrolman Steve:
Hiott Jr. and the wounding of Patrolma
Michael O'Connell. Green's first trial ende
with a hung jury.
Outside the courthouse, about 50 o
Green's supporters marched, chanting, "D
right white man before we get mad" an
singing, "We Shall Overcome" before a hal
Proposed amendments
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CHARLESTON (AP) ? Proposed cons
ments to shift rule-making authority over m;
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Supreme Court said Saturday.
"These proposals would take from the j
to stand free, and subordinate the
legislature," Chief Justice Woodrow Lewi
meeting of the South Carolina Magistrates
Likewise, he told the magistrates that t
from other branches of government would t
prove proposed amendments to the state
year.
THE AMENDMENTS, backed by a "j
movement in the General Assembly,
judiciary once again at the mercy of the
magistrate system would once again enter ;
dination to another form of government,'
The system has obtained stature and becc
the whims of the state's 46 counties becau;
become organized under the state Judici
said. Magistrates now operate under unif<
cedures covering such things as court rep
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But he said all that could be threatened i
appointed by the legislature.
Lewis said that two years ago the Supre
financing of magistrate salaries was needei
mity, but the General Assembly has not r
44HOW LONG must we wait for the G
take that action?" he asked. ,4A reason
have certainly elapsed."
Attorney General Travis Medlock, wh<
group Saturday, said legislation is now
Assembly to reduce inequities in magistra
Also during the session, the association
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cond vice president; George Jefferson of
third vice president; Lawrence L. Whi
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dozen deputies emerged to escort O'Connell,
his family and Mrs. Hiott to their cars.
"People have different ways of expressing
their feelings," Allston said. "We'll have to
try and hold some in line. But maybe in the
long run this will help bring black people to
realize that they are going to have to get involved
in community action and make
changes."
Green had been indicted for murder and
assault and battery with intent to kill. But the
jury convicted him Saturday on lesser
charges of manslaughter and assault and battery
of a high and aggravated nature. He will
be sentenced Oct. 17.
"I'M VERY, very pleased with the verdict,"
Solicitor Charles Condon said at the
end of the five-day trial. "He could still get
up to 40 years. There's enough range in the
sentence to see that justice is done in this
case."
Meanwhile, Green's attorney, William Runyon,
said the verdict was "somewhat of a
victory.
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has not been a murder case," he said. "We
have come a long way from when the state
wanted to put Ross Green in the electric
chair."
Runyon explained the options of appeal to
Green's family moments after the verdict
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THE SHOOTING occurred during a scuffle
on a back road near Hollywood, when
Hiott and O'Connell tried to arrest Green for
disorderly conduct.
O'Connell, whose wound left him blind in
one eye and with damaged memory, testified
Green shot both officers with his service
revolver.
Two witnesses, who stopped when they
saw the scuffle, testified they came upon two
men fighting and saw shots being fired
before a young black man broke away and
fired shots in the direction of where O'Connell
and Hiott were discovered.
But Green testified that when O'Connell
attempted to arrest him, "He pushed me, I
pushed back and we struggled. I attempted to
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ontinue to grand jury himself or ask the attor
inst seven general's office to do it.
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instruction pie in jail," Barron said, but repe<
allegations that the seven broke s
ficials and law.
ulance ser- The seven involved are James
3eorge W. Porter, project safety manager;
Va., fell 90 assistant Ray E. Sanders; safety ol
n elevated worker Thomas W. Fostei; regist<
imp Corp. nurse Judy Hughes; and tl
in Eastover members of the on-site ambuh
crew, Paulette Kyle, David McLen
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"HE (O'CONNELL) just shot his partner,"
Green said. "I knew he'd shoot me
next if I didn't fight him for the gun."
Green said he fought over the revolver, but
O'Connell "had his hand on the trigger. We
were fighting for the gun and in the sturggle
he got shot in his eye."
"You really believe officer O'Connell shot
himself and set all this up?" Condon later
asked the jury. "If you believe this, I've got a
Cooper River bridge I want to sell you."
The Rev. Renty Pickney, a pastor in
Green's community of Yonge's Island, said
Green's family and friends aren't so sure
what happened.
"The only reply I'm getting from folks
here is that the boy didn't commit a crime,"
Pickney said. "He was one little tellow and
they were two trained police officers with
guns. If he beat them both like this, we need
new police officers."
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Goodman was alive or dead after the
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tate Goodman's head was crushed, and
Barron later said he had been killed
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sred crew didn't know that at the time,
iree Almorode said the crew took Goodance
man to a company ambulance, put him
idon on life support equipment and then
transferred him to a Richland County
V.C. EMS vehicle that took him to Richland
ency Memorial Hospital, where he was proit
of nounced dead.
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