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and, especially if the victim was white, sentenced them to death at an unjustly high rate. Farmer argued that such results were virtually guaranteed by the exclusion of blacks from the jury pool. In
Terrell, in 1976, the population was about 60% black; however, the jury pool was 74% white. This racial imbalance was the target for the first of the many pre-trial motions on behalf of the Dawson Five, and in April 1977 it succeeded in obtaining a new jury pool with equal black and white members.
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heath reasons; however, his retirement from the case would only be temporarily, as he would return in
November to hear the conclusion of the case. Representing the prosecution was another elderly white man, District Attorney John R. Irwin, accompanied by Michael Stoddard, an Assistant Attorney General sent from Atlanta as a special prosecutor to assist the district attorney.
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serving nine months in jail, Watson told reporters that the police "told me they gonna put me in the electric chair ... They had these two things hooked up to my fingers. Had a thing on my arm, real tight. Said they gonna electrocute me if I didn't tell 'em." It was only later that Watson learned he was merely undergoing polygraph testing. The
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December 19, 1977 – Geer filed an order suppressing the confessions. John Irwin decided not to appeal and dropped all charges against the Dawson Five and closed the investigation, saying without the confessions, prosecutors "don't have much to go on". By that time, two of the defendants had spent one
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Millard Farmer focused some of his numerous pre-trail motions on the racial disparity in juror pools in
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Tiny Denton told the Dawson police that he recognized one of the youths that allegedly committed the hold-up murder. Denton identified Howell's killer as
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The defense aimed to put capital punishment on trial through the case of the Dawson Five. The defense aimed to turn the case from one in which five innocent black teenagers were on trial for their lives into a case in which the town of Dawson and
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Roosevelt Watson claimed that police had threatened to electrocute and castrate him. William M. Rucker, a former police officer, testified he witnessed threats of physical violence made by Deputy Jack
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from law enforcement officers. The defense helped raise bail money to get the defendants out on bail. They challenged the racial composition of the jury lists, delaying the start of the trial. This was part of Farmer's strategy to inundate the Terrell County court with pre-trial motions.
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racial climate of Dawson. The racial tension in the community, paired with the racial break down of the criminal accusations, put pressure on the police force to satisfy the community demands that the killer be found. Dawson is the
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December 14, 1977 – Geer, after hearing about four hours of pre-trial arguments, quickly and quietly threw out Watson's confession, writing in his order that "statements were not freely, voluntarily and intelligently made".
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under threats of violence, admitting to the shooting and implicated four others-his older brother, Henderson, 21, a cousin, J. D. Davenport, 18, and two friends, James ("Junior") Jackson, 17, and his brother, Johnny, 18.
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until three days after the murder. He also testified that two of the Dawson Five declared Watson as the killer, and that Watson confessed when confronted with their claims.
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racism, and Georgia's newly-minted death penalty statutes were on trial in every household of the nation that could be reached by newspaper and television.
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