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Source: Associated Press
By JEFF AMY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. Feb 29, 2016, 6:32 PM ET
A judge Monday ordered four white men convicted in the June 2011 beating and rundown death of a black autoworker in Mississippi to pay his heirs $840,000.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ordered 24-year-old Dylan Wade Butler, 23-year-old Deryl Paul Dedmon, 23-year-old John Aaron Rice and 26-year-old William Kirk Montgomery to make restitution to the beneficiaries of James Craig Anderson.
Anderson's death came on the last of a series of forays to what the group called "Jafrica" a combination of Jackson and Africa to assault black people. It ended in a hotel parking lot where the group spotted Anderson, who appeared to be intoxicated. Rice and Dedmon beat Anderson as Butler, Montgomery and others watched. As Dedmon left in his truck, he ran over Anderson, inflicting fatal injuries recorded on a hotel security camera.
All four pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and hate crime charges, and the earliest is scheduled to be released in 2018. The men share the liability, but each could be required to pay the whole amount if others make no contributions.
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Those rotten little shits should be in prison for life. Fucking murderers.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)let alone someone they didn't even know. I hope restitution can't be dismissed in bankruptcy.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)the murders not the ruling
How screwed up do you have to be before you start hunting people
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)but with these bums in prison for the rest of their lives, how much of that money do we think will actually get paid to the victim's family?
Somehow I doubt these four Rhodes scholars have big assets that can be liquidated.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's outrageous, but he may have just been an accessory, or he may have rolled on the other two (I don't know the case well).
So they get, maybe, the money he makes flipping burgers. If he can ever get a job, that is.
My guess is that the family will be lucky to ever get 10% of that money.
Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)in the article that one of them is getting out in 2018. The crime was horrifically evil - why the short sentence. If the races were reversed and the perps were black, they would be on death row, no doubt.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)How long are others serving ?