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FU V. 5-8-81) @ Yd) (Indicate page, name of | newspaper. city and State.) ‘KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL, iDate: Wednesday, 5/22/91 iEdition: , | Says man accused ~ ‘ Character: a LY i or ; ; j i n ' Classification: e@Egil octets STE i . " — se ee ~.5i ee, Submitting Office: .: RR Ra ac meremat nm eee moo toes ote, Ee 2S ee Py Sten Dati Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the 1963 | murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, fears he Cannot get a fair trial if he is returned to Mississippi | for Prosecution, his court-appointed attorney said Tuesday. “People have told him that times have changed in Mississippi,” said Chattanooga lawyer Russell Bean, Shortly after he argued against Beckwith’s extradi- able to reach a decision. During the 1960s a State-appointed Sovereignty Commission held Sway in Mississippi. It Screened jurors on the basis of their racial attitudes prior to Beckwith’s trials, Since the Sovereignty Commission was abolished in the mid-1970s and blacks are Serving on juries, ees 7 eg . a iiatheertethens Ronettes tah cen — i ieeehtnecrth eethertadiemnt Peto (yar oe cenenies a Se wen i ee Pan ie ee a cae nee = — 7 man -