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Tommy Lee Hines arriving for his trial at the Cullman County courthouse in Cullman, Alabama.

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Triolo, Tony

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His father, Richard, and James Guster are walking in front of him. Tommy Lee Hines, a 26-year old man who was said to have the mind of a 6-year-old child, had been charged with raping three white women in Decatur. Because his lawyer argued that he could not get a fair trial in Morgan County, it was moved to Cullman, where an all-white jury convicted him of one rape and sentenced him to thirty years in prison. Two years later, a different jury found him mentally incompetent to stand trial, and he was transferred to Partlow State School and Hospital in Tuscaloosa, where he stayed for more than a decade.
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1978 10 03
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Capture & Imprisonment
  3. Cullman (Ala.)
  4. Cullman County (Ala.)
  5. Guster, James
  6. Hines, Richard
  7. Hines, Tommy Lee
  8. Judicial Proceedings

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