Nation IN BRIEF : TENNESSEE : Extradition Ordered in Evers Murder Case
Byron De La Beckwith, who has been tried twice for the 1963 slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, must be returned to Mississippi to stand trial a third time, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled. Beckwith, 70, was first arrested Dec. 17. Freed on $15,000 bond, he was arrested again Dec. 30 on a warrant signed by Gov. Ned McWherter. Both of Beckwith’s earlier trials ended in hung juries. Last fall, a grand jury in Mississippi reopened the investigation into Evers’ death amid charges of evidence and jury tampering, and Beckwith was indicted a third time.
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