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This is Barry Truss. I'm Hank Clibinoff.

In the first season of Barry Truss, I said that the Georgia Civil Rights cold cases project

in Emory and this podcast are not about who done it. Because in almost every case, we know who

did it and they're all dead. But not in the AC Hall case. Both police officers who shot AC Hall

were alive and easy to locate when the Justice Department reopened the case in 2007.

All of our research suggests that the Justice Department in 2011 ignored discrepancies in the

accounts of key players whose stories sharply contradicted their testimony from 1962.

So much so. We were surprised that federal investigators walked away from the case.

Their report in 2011 said there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt

that either Brown or Durden acted with the requisite criminal intent.

According to Brown, the subjects fired when the victim turned toward them and pulled a gun.

Well, as we know, AC Hall didn't have a gun. The Justice Department's report says nothing

about this contradiction. It just says that Brown's story in 2011 was consistent with what he said

in 1962 and therefore was credible.

Now, I told you that the Department of Justice reopened a lot of civil rights cold cases in

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