It's ridiculous that bail was even granted to this convicted killer, but now it's been revoked after they found out he lied about his health. The guy was going to go to a hate rally even.
By the way one of the young men he killed was an AEPi (Michael Schwerner, Beta - Cornell University 1961).
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...ME-KLAN-DC.XML
Klansman's bail revoked
Fri Sep 9, 2005 4:27 PM ET
By Jeff Edwards
PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (Reuters) - A judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison on Friday and said the Klansman jailed for orchestrating the murder of three civil rights workers had misled the court about his health to win bail.
Killen, who used an oxygen tank to assist his breathing during his trial in June, broke both legs in a tree-cutting accident in March. He testified at his bond hearing in August that he was in great pain, was unable to walk and needed therapy that was unavailable in prison.
But a sheriff's deputy testified on Friday that he saw 80-year-old Killen at a gas station, walking and standing beside his pickup truck. Several other deputies said they had seen Killen driving around town.
"I feel fraud has been committed upon the court," Circuit Court Judge Marcus Gordon told Killen, who sat before him in a wheelchair. The judge revoked Killen's bail.
In June, a jury convicted Killen on three counts of manslaughter for the 1964 killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, three young civil rights workers who were registering blacks to vote in Mississippi.
The notorious crime galvanized the civil rights movement and inspired the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."
Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison but in August, Gordon released him on $600,000 bail pending appeal because of his deteriorating health.
The judge noted on Friday that a local newspaper had quoted Killen as saying he planned to attend a "Killen Appreciation Day" reception proposed by a white supremacist group.
Gordon said Killen's mobility obviously was not as limited as he had claimed and ordered him back to prison. Deputies wheeled Killen out of the courthouse in his wheelchair and drove him to the Neshoba County jail to await transfer to the state prison.
"When you come into court and place yourself in front of the court in a truthful manner, you'll receive justice," the judge told reporters outside the courthouse later. "But when you come in there with fraudulent testimony, the courts can't stand for that."
-Rudey
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