The Nation - News from Oct. 27, 1985

A Vietnamese immigrant at the defendant’s table kept telling his translator, “Not me, not me,” as a murder trial in Gainesville, Ga., proceeded for a day and a half before authorities found out they were trying the wrong man. Ngoc Nguyen Tieu was supposed to be on trial in a stabbing death. Instead, Hen Van Nguyen, 27, who had been jailed on a theft charge, was being tried. The mistake was not discovered until Cathy Pemberton, who knows both men, checked on the status of the case and told officials the wrong man was on trial. A mistrial was declared.