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Trooper Defends Action at Raleigh Road Block Trial
Former highway trooper D H Matthews testified at a trial board that he fired into the Fisher car to reach an incapacitated hostage during the I 85 abduction in Durham. Trooper Robert Williams also testified and invoked the Fifth Amendment. Six officers were disciplined for the incident and their appeals proceed through state boards and courts.
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Raleigh, N.C
Highway Patroman
D.H. Matthews
Mathews
Fisher
Crouch
Matthews
Franklinton
Robert P. Williams
Durham
Reuben
Sonny) Conley
Atlanta
Interstate 85
Conley
G. Perry Green
State Secretary of Transportation
G.D. Russell
Cary
W.E. Pickard
Raleigh
Stacey S. Bailey
Henderson
Raymond E. Evans
Oxford
State Personnel Commission
Greene
William W. Melvin
State Attorney General's Office
Williams
Bailey and
Evans
Maj
Russell
Pickard
J. Phil Carlton
Secretary of
Crime Control and Public Safety
Carlton