CBS Evening News - 1982-02-27
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[0:00] 7:30 tonight
[0:02] >> from around the world and from CBS News
[0:04] headquarters in New York. This is the
[0:07] CBS Evening News with Bob Schiffer. Good
[0:11] evening. The jury in the Atlanta murder
[0:12] trial of Wayne Williams is apparently
[0:14] near a conclusion in its deliberations.
[0:16] We have a report from Bruce Hall in
[0:18] Atlanta.
[0:20] After meeting behind the closed doors of
[0:22] the courtroom most of the day, the jury
[0:24] sent a note to Judge Clarence Cooper
[0:26] saying they have reached a verdict in
[0:28] one case, but not in a second case.
[0:30] Judge Cooper told them to continue, and
[0:32] there are reports that the jury believes
[0:34] they will be able to get a verdict later
[0:36] tonight. It was a smiling and hopeful
[0:38] Wayne Williams who was escorted from the
[0:40] jail to the courthouse. The lawyers,
[0:43] also hopeful of a decision, arrived at
[0:45] the courthouse. The jurors are
[0:47] continuing their deliberations in the
[0:48] courtroom rather than the normal jury
[0:50] room in order to have access to the
[0:52] nearly 2,000 exhibits that have been
[0:54] presented in this 9-week long trial.
[0:57] Williams has been charged with the
[0:58] killings of Jimmy Ray Payne and
[1:00] Nathaniel Kater. There have been no
[1:02] indictments in the other killings that
[1:03] spread over the Atlanta metropolitan
[1:05] area over a 2-year period. But the case
[1:07] is being watched closely by several
[1:09] police officials, including Dicab County
[1:11] Public Safety Director Dick Han, who
[1:14] must decide if he is going to bring
[1:15] additional charges against Williams.
[1:17] >> The best two cases from the review that
[1:21] I have seen so far are the Baltazar case
[1:24] and uh the Barrett case wo