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iO.UW uivMi ...KIjIC*hy out of jail. I told them they might as well go buy peanuts and pink lemonade at Ihc circus. But they got him out anyway . . , Why, they hsd 50 lawyers working on thal thing , , /’ In 1961, after he'd served little more then four years, DeWitt came out of jail on one of the earliest pi roles for a life termer ever granted in Georgia. A member of the Parole Board said it was clearly a case of seffde-fense.Duwoor:iCLalpart Sunlt; peri non can G Ush anc lur wa wo ;CO.Mlt;Lawyers relained by Mossier ^ for thn salvage operation included such figures as George D. Stewart, slate Democratic i parly secretary; Hep. Frank Twilty; Dan Duke, now a erim. inal court judge and, Inst hut I not least. Gov. Griffin's arch-foe Carl E. Sanders, then president pro lem of the slate senate. !Sanders — who later said he acted in the case merely as j Mossler’s Georgia attorney of; record, without extra pay — was about to run for lieutenant governor in J962. “We were lunching one day,” Candy told an Atlanta Constitution reporter I ft last summer, “and Carl was n saying how he needed lo raise about SCO.000 for the race.'1She told him he should raise his sights, run for governor instead. That, he said, would lake SI50,000. lie said it was out of the question.I think it'll be easier lo raise $150,000 for you to run for governor than $40,000 to run for lieutenant governor/' Candy told him.Sanders was set against the idea, but taler Mossier himself prevailed on him Lo go. Garland Byrd, who was running with (he support of Griffin, died of a heart attack and Sanders walked into a four-year term. “His old law firm/' Car.dy {old the reporter, “still represents our interests/’(Tomorrow: the adopted nephew)a;UsiwpIIs
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Wed, Dec 29, 1965
Page 14
Full Page
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Ronald S.
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