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Bobby Frank Cherry Found Guilty of First Degree Murder

Aired May 22, 2002 - 15:05   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Also the case of Bobby Frank Cherry, Birmingham, Alabama. The verdict is in and the verdict is guilty.

At 71 years of age, one of the most notorious crimes to ever come out of the civil rights era, now apparently closed pending appeal, Bobby Frank Cherry will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

This dating back to the 1963 murder of four young African- American girls caught up in explosion inside of a church in Alabama. The verdict, again, is guilty.

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