>
> He wasn't innocent; he was black. And as a relative of a Pontiac Prison
> guard put it to me, in so many words, over 25 years ago, We have to get
> some of them. That is, it did not matter in the least whether those
> convicts accused of the murders were the guilty ones; it only mattered
> that they were convicts and black, and as long as some black convicts
> were punished, who cared whether they were the guilty ones.
>
> Carrol