The Nation - News from Nov. 6, 1985
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Civil rights lawyer William Kunstler contended that government investigators withheld evidence linking the Ku Klux Klan to the Atlanta child murders because they feared a “race riot” in the city. Kunstler said he will seek to overturn Wayne Williams’ conviction in the case based on documents that include statements from two police informants that a klansman had threatened 14-year-old Lubie Geter, one of the victims. Williams, 25, who is serving two life sentences, was charged with only two of the 28 murders of young blacks.
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