The Nation - News from Oct. 13, 1985
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An all-white federal jury in Tuscaloosa, Ala., acquitted Spiver Gordon, a black political activist, of nine charges of voting fraud and was unable to reach a verdict on 12 additional charges. In Birmingham, a jury in the retrial of Bobbie Nell Simpson, a black activist, found her innocent of voting fraud. The verdicts left prosecutors winless in five trials stemming from a Justice Department inquiry on voting activities in five predominantly black counties in rural Alabama. Jurors in Gordon’s trial were ordered to resume deliberations Tuesday.
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