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Updated: 3/22/2012 8:18 am

Published: 3/22/2012 8:14 am

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — An attorney for a black man charged in the shooting death of a white Searcy man is seeking a new location for a trial after fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan were circulated in nearby Pangburn.

An attorney for Maurice Alexander also cited media coverage in the death of Zachary Mitchell as reason to move the proceedings. Mitchell was fatally shot in October when he was working as a janitor.

Alexander's attorney, Darrell Brown Jr., argued the presence of KKK fliers in the county shows that jurors may be prejudiced against a black man charged with killing a white man.

Prosecutors told The Daily Citizen that they'd just received the request and hadn't had time to review it. A judge set a March 28 hearing to consider the motion.

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me501 - 3/23/2012 1:34 PM

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Petition for what? He has already been charged and trial proceding are to begin soon.The Justice system is working just fine for his victim.FBI? we all know that he is not getting out of jail again.Why waist their time.

thescreamer - 3/23/2012 3:24 AM

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Where is the petition for this low life? OOPS!! This is different. He's black that killed an unarmed white man. Where's the FBI? I think it's a HATE crime too. I'm sorry, it only goes one way. Now, I wonder why we still have prejudice people in this country. Sorry, it doesn't go one way.

cmducks - 3/22/2012 7:35 PM

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All I know to tell em is.... If he done it. He should have thought about all that kind of stuff befor he did what he did. Sounds like now that it's time to pay the piper... He's trying to worm is way out. If he done it he will pay the price. If not. I have faith that our good voteing people will let him go.

me501 - 3/22/2012 12:57 PM

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So this is how the justice system work.You kill someone=get arrested and then trial time.Justice for trayvon Martin.

Butch54 - 3/22/2012 12:07 PM

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Being raised in that part of the country I could see that without my glasses. Being a person with an active working brain I can see it being true. Give him a fair trial where ever. If the evidence is there to convict he will be convicted. I have faith in the moral majority the pool jurors are pulled from. Registered voters. Look at all the good people the have voted into office.

wpsark - 3/22/2012 9:04 AM

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I hope the judge has a brain and doesn't buy this race card bs.

dilligaf - 3/22/2012 8:35 AM

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What a joke. For this attorney to claim that the presence of KKK fliers in the county may entice people to say his client is guilty because he is black is a joke. They were not even actual KKK fliers, just something some booger eating mouth breather printed up and passed out. Let me guess, the attorney wants to move the trial to Drew or Chicot counties so it will be fair for his client. Play the race card you idiots.

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