Forty-Three Years After the Fact
Klyde Kennard, a decorated Korean War Vet may be pardoned for a crime he did not committ 43 years after his death.
Kennard was framed for robbery and convicted in 1960 after he tried to become the first black man to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Kennard died in 1963 of cancer shortly after his release.
The Center of Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern has renewed a request for a pardon, citing the recanted testimony of the man who convicted him.
According to the appeal: "With one swipe of your pen, Gov. Barbour, you can close this tragic chapter of Mississippi's history, bring closure to the remaining members of the Kennard family, and restore Clyde Kennard to his reightful place as a hero of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement."
To read more about this case, click here.
Kennard was framed for robbery and convicted in 1960 after he tried to become the first black man to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Kennard died in 1963 of cancer shortly after his release.
The Center of Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern has renewed a request for a pardon, citing the recanted testimony of the man who convicted him.
According to the appeal: "With one swipe of your pen, Gov. Barbour, you can close this tragic chapter of Mississippi's history, bring closure to the remaining members of the Kennard family, and restore Clyde Kennard to his reightful place as a hero of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement."
To read more about this case, click here.
posted by ecperry @ 10:33 AM
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At 2:02 PM,
Anonymous said…
HEAVE-HO TO KENNARD HANKY-PANKY
High-jinx, hanky-panky and irregularities have failed to derail the appeal
of attempts to "exonerate" Clyde Kennard, the Negro chicken-feed thief
balleyhooed as the latest icon of integrationists, Communists and backers
of the Bush-Administration. Forrest County, Mississippi Circuit Judge Robert
Helfrich had initially issued an order, sought by Reuben Anderson, the Negro
bag-man for the Black Caucus, Charles Pickering, who once sentenced
a man to jail for burning a cross, and William Winter, who had tried
unsuccessfully to abolish the Confederate state-flag, "exonerating" Kennard,
because Kennard was an integrationist and the 1961 jury which convicted
him was white.
When Edward "Red" Graham and four other, local citizens petitioned Helfrich
to set aside the move, on the grounds that the order was void and the court
lacked jurisdiction, the judge took the unusual step of issuing no order, at
all. Without an order entered, the case could not be appealed. Court-rules,
however, allowed litigants to seek a Writ of Mandamus from the state
supreme-court, after sixty days, which is what Graham did. Helfrich may
have thought that by not issuing a ruling, the Kennard-opponents might
give up. However, Graham told the high-court, which had already turned
down a previous request for "exoneration," that Helfrich must be ordered
to act and the high-jinx could not stand.
The day that the proceeding was filed on September 5, 2006, Helfrich
was ordered to show cause why relief should not be granted to Graham.
Helfrich immediately filed the sought-after order in Hattiesburg, although
post-dating it to September 1, 2006. On September 18, 2006, he filed a
copy in the Supreme Court. The order claimed that Graham, who had asserted
that he was a "citizen of Mississippi," had "no right" to challenge Helfrich,
even though Anderson, Pickering and Winter had claimed the same grounds to
seek the "exoneration," in the first place. In yet another striking and odd
irregularity, neither Helfrich nor the trial-court clerk sent a copy of the order
to Graham's lawyer.
Helfrich, acting as his own lawyer, failed to attach the certificate of service
to his pleadings required by court-rules. If thirty days had been allowed to
lapse, which appeared to have been Helfrich's intent, Graham would have
lost his right to appeal. Graham withdrew his request for mandamus as moot
on September 21, 2006 and immediately filed his notice of appeal. Graham's
challenge and subsequent appeal had the legal-effect of giving the "exoneration"
the heave-ho, until the Supreme Court rules, although Pickering, a member
of the Berkowitz law-firm, still insisted that Kennard was "innocent." However,
even integrationist Donna Ladd conceded that Kennard "knew" that his feed
was stolen.
The US Supreme Court, Mississippi Supreme Court, Governor's Office and
Parole Board had all turned down attempts to "clear" Kennard, who had
served time in the state penitentiary and state mental-institution. Graham,
a Mississippi State University alumnus, has, also, been leading the fight to
oust Sylvester Croom, the Negro football-coach named at historically-white
MSU. Public outcry against both Croom and Kennard has been escalating.
Graham observed that he is "right on track" in pursuing "justice" and
"Americanism" and is optimistic that the "hanky-panky" will fail. The "Talk
Left" website expressed "sadness" that the "happy ending" for Kennard
had been busted up by Graham.
http://www.nationalist.org/news/flashes/2006/092301.html
© 2006 The Nationalist Movement
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