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Witness given freedomLITTLE ROCK AP)- Emmanuel Thomas. 25, a key prosecution witness in the recent murder trial of Alonzo Clay Reed, has been released from the Pulaski County Jail.Thomas was released Tuesday after pleading guilty in Pulaski Circuit Court to charges of burglary, breaking or entering and theft for incidents which allegedly occurred last summer Judge Lowber Hendricks Jr gave Thomas a five-year suspended sentence The state had relied heavily on the testimony of Thomas in the Reed trial. Reed was found innocent in the 1974 shooting deaths of a Pine Bluff couple Thomas and another inmate admitted they were involvedin the murders. They weregranted immunity from prosecution in return for theirtestimony against Reed.After Reed was acquitted, prosecutors said the jurors ap-parently didn’t believe Thomas Thomas said he had received a threatening note prior to his testimony. Thomas said a note had been left on his bunk in the county jail a few days before the trial began.Deputy Prosecutor DavidWilliams said Tuesday that Thomas’ life would have been endangered had he gone to prison.Williams said he believed that Thomas’ testimony was truthfulThomas testified that Reed had told him before the incident that he was planning to kill Ernest Dene “Lanny” Landrum. 21, and to steal his drugs.The bodies of Landrum and Carmen Sue Margrave, 18. were found in the trunk of an abandoned car in Reservoir Park inFebruarv 1974.w
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Benton Courier
Benton, Arkansas, US
Wed, Apr 18, 1979
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