with three choices: guilty, innocent or not proven. this time the verdict s yours. mary welcome was wayne williams defense attorney. good morning. good morning. how are you? this was her first murder trial. what was he like when you met him? a most unlikely killer. yeah? why? because he just didn t appear to be the kind of person that could strangle anyone or have the strength to. to her, wayne williams seemed gentle, child-like. one day i left him in jail. i said, wayne, is there anything i can bring? would you like anything? he said, would you bring me some bubble gum. williams was charged with and tried for only two murders nathaniel cater and jimmy payne, both adults found in the same area of the chattahoochee river. cater s body was nude, but his
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legislature. i was an n-lover. you know what n stands for. mary welcome agreed. when justice smith wrote the defense attorneys were ineffective. we were rendered ineffective. we were rendered incompetent because of the lack of funds, the lack of time and the lack of resources, absolutely. things did go wrong in the trial that should not have. an ambulance driver suggested an explosive motive for wayne williams. this from cnn s report at the time. bobby tolin said williams asked him once had he ever considered how many blacks could be eliminated by killing one nigger child. but unknown to either side tolin was not his real name. in fact, he had a criminal record. he testified under a false name, had an extensive arrest record under his real name. i m not sure that we knew all of that at the time or it was disclosed to us.
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that all of them were dead. smith was denounced on the floor of the georgia legislature. i was an n-lover. you know what n stands for. mary welcome agreed. when justice smith wrote the defense attorneys were ineffective. we were rendered ineffective. we were rendered incompetent because of the lack of funds, the lack of time and the lack of resources, absolutely. things did go wrong in the trial that should not have. an ambulance driver suggested an explosive motive for wayne williams. this from cnn s report at the time. bobby tolin said williams asked him once had he ever considered how many blacks could be eliminated by killing one nigger child. but unknown to either side tolin was not his real name. in fact, he had a criminal record. he testified under a false name, had an extensive arrest record
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a case built on fibers no fingerprints, no murder weapon, no apparent motive. now, remember, you re the jury three choices guilty, innocent or not proven. this time the verdict s yours. mary welcome was wayne williams defense attorney. good morning. good morning. how are you? this was her first murder trial. what was he like when you met him? a most unlikely killer. yeah? why? because he just didn t appear to be the kind of person that could strangle anyone or have the strength to. to her, wayne williams seemed gentle, child-like. one day i left him in jail. i said, wayne, is there anything i can bring? would you like anything? he said, would you bring me some bubble gum. williams was charged with and tried for only two murders nathaniel cater and jimmy payne,
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