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High court won't review Seale case
Published Tuesday, November 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi.
The justices on Monday rejected a plea from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on whether too much time had elapsed for the case against James Ford Seale to go forward.
The action leaves in place a lower court ruling that the statute of limitations had not expired for a federal kidnapping charge against Seale in the 1964 disappearance of two 19-year-old friends.
Seale was convicted in 2007 of abducting the men. Authorities said they were beaten, weighted down and thrown, possibly still alive, into a Mississippi River backwater.
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Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 9:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
OK. I don't see a real problem with that.
Will anyone argue that kidnapping or murder or accessory to murder should have a limitation so perps can get back to their lives worry free?
Posted by kpage (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 9:53 a.m.
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Posted by southernwoman (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 10:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Good news.
Posted by dottie (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 10:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS ON JUSTICE. JUSTICE DELAYED
SHOULD NOT BE JUSTICE DENIED.
Posted by fraidoclowns (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 10:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Can't see how anyone could have a problem with that.
Posted by OldGrandDad (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 10:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds to me like justice was done. Its a shame that it was done so very late.
Posted by mseyes47 (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 11:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree 100%. A crime is a crime.
Posted by LOVESNATCHEZ (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 11:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Let's face it; this old man lived the best part of his life free. That's too bad, but at least he WILL die in prison.
Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 11:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
same here...agree 100%
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 12:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hopefully it will be a lesson, If you do the crime sooner or later you WILL do the time. Keep him there till he rots.
Posted by Krogers (anonymous) on November 3, 2009 at 2:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
no there should be no time limit to prosecuting murder or kidnapping..........and race should certainly be no factor , no exceptions.....
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