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Ex-Policeman Faces Trial In Algiers Motel Death
The first murder trial in the Algiers Motel Case opens in Mason Michigan. Ronald W August 29 faces first degree murder charges for the 1967 killings of Aubrey Pollard 19 Fred Temple 18 and Carl Cooper 17 during Detroit riots. Witnesses say police and a guardsman fired during a raid amid assaults on youths and two white girls.
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Algiers
Mason, Mich
Detroit
Ronald W. August
August
Aubrey Pollard
Fred Temple
Carl Cooper
Cooper
Pollard
Temple
William J. Beer
Avery Weiswasser
Beer
Oakland County Circuit Court
Norman L. Lippit
Lippit
Detroit Police Officers Association
David Senak
Robert Paille
Melvin Dismukes
Stephen J. Roth
U.S. District Court
Paille
Michigan Supreme Court
Dismukes
Ingham County Court House
Mason
Weiswasser
Pollard, Temple