The Nation - News from Jan. 17, 1989
A judge in Greenville, S.C., denied a request to move the murder trial of Noah R. Robinson, the half-brother of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, but said he would reconsider the motion if prospective jurors appear biased by pretrial publicity. Jury selection began in the trial of Robinson, a Chicago businessman who is accused of hiring members of a Chicago street gang to kill Leroy (Hambone) Barber, a former employee and a childhood friend of Robinson’s in Greenville. Three jurors have been chosen so far.
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