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Appeal filed in bombing case
BIRMINGHAM, May 10 - A former Klansman convicted of murdering four
black girls in a 1963 church bombing has begun his appeals.
A defense lawyer filed legal papers Thursday seeking a new
trial for Thomas Blanton Jr. Blanton is challenging his conviction
on more than a dozen separate issues.
Those include a judge's decision to let jurors listen to
secretly recorded tapes in which Blanton was heard discussing the
bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Blanton also claims he should get a new trial because no white
males served on the jury of eight whites and four blacks that
convicted him. And he says the trial should have been held somewhere
other than Birmingham.
Such retrial requests typically are denied. But they allow
cases to move forward to appeals courts.
The 62-year-old Blanton was sentenced to life in prison.
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