Mayor Asks Court to Drop Murder Charge
Lawyers for the mayor of York argued in court that murder charges should be dropped against their client for the civil rights-era slaying of a black woman gunned down during race riots in the city in 1969.
Lawyers for Mayor Charlie Robertson and eight other defendants, all of them white, said their civil rights had been violated because so much time had elapsed since the death of Lillie Belle Allen in 1969 and their arrests this year.
The long gap between the crime and their arrests made it impossible for them to defend themselves, they alleged.
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