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Atlanta Murders Reopened |
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Consider This: |
| Date Posted: |
05/23/2005 |
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If this guy is so smart, why didn't he, as a task force member, reach out to the media to keep Williams from being "railroaded"?
If your answer to that is Atlanta's "cheerleading" media, why not reach out to national media? Wouldn't "60 Minutes" have jumped at a credible alternative theory?
And finally, couldn't he have obtained help from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, etc, to force the national media to hear him? You're asking me to belive that they wouldn't jump at the chance to put a white guy in prison? Or at least the right black guy?
You're asking me to accept a lot.
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Yes, Sidney Dorsey, ex Atlanta homicide cop, ex-Sheriff of DeKalb County and convicted murderer was among those calling for the re=opening of the Clifford Jones Case in 1987. Dorsey personally worked the case and had an excellent reputation as a skilled homicide investigator. That reputation has nothing to do with Dorsey's conviction. The facts of the case haven't changed one iota.
As for "Cameraman's" claim that if the new, exculpatory evidence is so compelling..then why didn't "60-Minutes" jump on it? Actually, 60-Minutes has, over the years, expressed interest in this story. But "Dateline NBC" expressed more interest. In 1998, they revisited this story with a 25-minute piece.
In that piece, a large group of parents appeared on camera. The group strongly expressed it's belief that Williams was innocent and that the police and FBI covered up the real facts of the case. Also, Court-TV, has re-run, over a dozen times, it's 2000 documentary on these cases. In fact, the documentary re-ran again on May 16th. CBS Radio, Westwood One, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and other media entities have also explored this story in recent years. But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, in particular, have chosen to ignore reporting on new, exculpatory evidence.
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