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Pickens Board of Education Minutes; Correspondences between Bozeman and Carpenter, Thomas and Ward, Ward and Bozeman, Seay and Ward, Parham and Bozeman, Ward and Drake; Public Hearing of the Pickens Board of Education (Transcript); Indictment; Verdict; Case Action Summary; Minute Entry; Bozeman v. Lambert Judgment; Memorandum Opinion (Bozeman v. Lambert and Wilder v. Lambert); Bozeman v. Pickens Stipulations. Dates span from 11/6/1979-9/9/1985
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illillIES 0t Plff[t{s cout{Tl mAnD 0r u)ucAn0il

611s Novcuber 6' 1979

The Plckanr County Eotrd of Educrtlon lct for 
"o'clll 

c'lltd lcctlng lt 6:30 9'o' on

rur.d.v,Noverber6,rsts.";;t;'t;:-;;ii;tngtt'uerr-iilttit'nttttt'r'B'eood'rd'Jr"
chrlro.n. JrE. G' no"to' ll"r itit-tii sovl eag-ott[i-iiitit' ttt' J' v' Prrk' Al'o Pr'ttnt

u.r! suPGrlntGndtnt ct'ptnt"tl-l"a-rttiti"nt'supcilntendrnt llolllun'

Aftcr convenlng !h' Bo'rd llmdllt'ly ucnt lnto 
'xtcutlvG 'Gttton 

to dlrcu't the 3t'cul

of Hr.. Hr881t s. go"...n,,ill"ir-]i-iir,".,rrr..erJlilii-iit,i"i. on Frldry, NovGlb.r 2'

l9?g,Hrs.Bozananvrt"tt'iiit]-iv-it'GclrcuLtct"tiii-ii"iii;countv'Alrbrr'ofrfrloov
of f cn.G undcr thr le. -""iiiii..'. o?-ti"-s....-or il:;;:--iit;'-iit's'pttrnttnd'nt lnfoild

rh! Board of varlou. "o.p^"i.i.-"li".i"iig 
lttt' 8os6'nrt prrfonencr'

Afrer dracus.ron lnd on mtron DdG by xr. prta.. rrcondrd by xr' EdS,dorlh' th' Bo'rd

notrry it.l'i",tut'uv lcttlr (lmt Lnom rddrrrr
.r'.. .i.'i.Iii-II'conararrtns c'nc'll'tlon of

rn. roltil--itt. lorrd further 'uthorlt'd 
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suD.rlnt.ndcnt to norlfy rr.l-i.r.L. r "- rJ.-rl"a.i'-irii t.t t.rchlnt dutl" 'ftrctlvc
rJcdtrtclv' P.ndln8 ' rt"tli lttir"g th't h'd utt" ll[li'ita-iii t'"totv' Dricaber 4' L979'

.t toroo ..n. rt th' 
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offlcr' Clrrollton' AlrbrD''

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t{rs. Maggle S. Bozeosn
P. O, Drawer T
Allcevllle, Alabama 35442

Dear !lre. Bozeman:

The Ptckene Couoty Board of Educatlon authorlzed Ee to nottfy you

that the Board ta considerlng a ebncellatloD of your contrect' Ltkewlge'

I am further authorLzed to notffi you that the Board haa detcroined to

suspend you frou yoot teachlng ilti.", effective lmedlately' pendlog a

heaitng eB aet out hereln below'

A hearlag haa beeo acheduled on Tueaday, Decenber 4' L979, at teD

orclock a.o. ln the Board toot ii lt" "*ttli 
offlce located la Carrolltoo'

AIabama.

The grormds uPon whlch
Sectlon 16-24-8 of the Code

your cootrect Day be canceled are fouod 1a

li lr.i"r", Lg75', and whlch aPPesr ag follotrs:

For lncoupetency, lneubordlnatton, neglect of duty, trn-

uorallty, Suetliiable decreaee ln the Dtrber of teachlng
poeltlone or other good and Juet cause'

The followlng speclftc chargea have been oade 1n relatlon to youl Per-

1.' Your conrrlctlcl by tbe Clrcult Court" of Plckens Countyt

Alabama, of a-ief"ny offenee urder the Lgws and Statutes
of the State of Alabama'

2. Your fatlure to follor the rulee of your aupervlelng
prlnclpal t.giiaft'g elgolng ln at the beglnnlng of the

echool daY.

3. your fallure to subult uandatory weekly leison plane to
your PrlnclPal. . '.'

4. Your fallure to rubolt your contlnulng education plane

to your prri"ip"i-ea reiurred by thc Pollciea of the

Plcireae Cormty Eoard of Educatlon'

PICI(ENS COUNTY BOABD OF EDUCATION
Alfi(. cl tfr t'ttint'lrdtal

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GIRBOT.LT'ON. lr. .El^Il toar 7

November 6, L979

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Page No. 2

Noveaber 6' 1979

5.Insubordlnatlonregardlngyourfalluretoabldebyor
follow the dtrectlona "oi 

it "ttuctlons 
of your prtnclpal

and/or the aseletant 3uPerlntendent regardlng the-

aeflcreicies deecrlbed in paragraphe 2, 3 end 4 above'

If you deslre to conteEt thle propoaed -cancellatlon, then you uust

fl1e wlth the Board of Educatlon at leaat flve days prlor to the hearlag

yourlntenttontoconteat.IouuayalaoeelecttohaveyourhearlnS
elther publ1c or prlvate and have your tttorney Present' You aleo have

the rlght to eubplena wltnegaea on your behslf accordlag to the te''.B

and provletons oi-i""tion 16-24-9 oi th" Code of Alaboa, 1975'

If you have any questloas concernlng thls entlre procedure' plcase

call thla offlce -i '" u111 do our beat to .oal,er the rame.

SlncerelYt

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Superlntendeat

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Certlfled Mall No. 9749496

Box T
AtieviIle, PiL 35442
NovEnber L2, L979

Sirerely

Mr. WiILiar W. Caryenter, St4=rin@nt
Pic*ens @r.rtty Board of Fiilrrcatiot
P. O. Bor< 32
CarcIltsr, AL 35447

Ear lrf. Carpenter:

hn:suant to E 16-24-9, @ of Alabara L975t f anr herelryz^rDtifyfug
1ou that f i-f,tena to isrtest the propsed carneltatlot of ry qttrrt
ard I shalf be rcpresented by legaI oormsef at the board lEarinq
ecleduled fur nriday, recenber 4, L979. I &sire a prb}[c Inartng.
A reqest ftr a [sCof rritresses wilt be na& rritiin tlre rext f*r
days.

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CERTIFIED }'AIL NO. PO73563299

Novenber 2L, L979

Mr. William W. Carpenter, Superintendent
Pickens County Board of Education
Post Office Box 32
Carrollton, Alabama 35447

Re: Proposed Contract Cancellation

Dear l'1r. Carpenter:

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 16-24-13, Code of Alabama,
1975 f hereby request a leave of absence without Pay.pending
the outcome of my appeal of a felony offense conviction in the
Courts of Alabarna.

If this request is granted by the Board, it would be with the
condition ihat the charges and hearing addressed to me in your
letter of November 6, L979 will be held in abeyance and that I
need not appear to answer said charges on Decernber 4, L979.

This request for leave shall be for the period reguired to
appeal niy conviction, which is not er<pected to exceed one (1)
year from this date

lly thanks in advance for the Boardrs prompt and considerate
attention to this request. An early response ie needed in order
that I may prepare for the December 4, L979 hearing in the event
this request is not granted.

Sincerel
1*\

fia ''?-2,
(Mrs. ) Maggie . Bozeman

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CERTIFIED MAIL NO. P].5 8601991

November 30, L979

ltlr. $lilliam W. Carpenter, Superintendent
Pickens County Board of Education
Post Office Box 32
Carrollton, Alabama 35447

Re: Conditional Resignation

Dear t'tr. Carpenter:

In the unlikely event that my felony conviction ls upheld in the
Courts of Alabama, and in the Courte of theae United States,
please be advised that I will resign my poeition aa a teacher
in the Pickens County School System. If my felony conviction
is reverged, however, I wilL insist on my rights under the
tenure laws of Alabama as they relate to the discharge of tenured
teachers.

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Sincerely,

) llaggie

F i I'F:. :-:t i :: .

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PICI(ETi S COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIOS
Olicr of llra Suganntand.nl

P. O. Eor 32 Plrcar 367-8102

CANNOLLTON.  LABAUA 3C{'7

- December 10, L979
stAM W. cARPENTtt

Supar,nrtnd!nt

B WOOOARD, JR.
Praridanl

Maabarr ol Thc Bord
J V ,AnX. Ahcc'rll.
JArES G XOt-Al{O. Crrrrllto^
JACi PA7[ Qer66
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Itrs. Maggle S. Bozeman
P. O. Drawer T
A1lcevllle, Alabaua 35442

Dear !1rs. Bozeman:

Re: Plckene county Board of Educatlon - Euploynent StaBus

Thle letter uould Eerve to acknorledge recelpt of letters frolB you

concernlng your etrployoent Btetus rrlth the Plckens Cor.urty Board of Educatlon.
Spectflcally, therl was flret recelved a letter by you requestlng a leave of

"L"".". 
whlch uas aubaequently followed by a coodltlonal reslgnatlon notlce

pendlng the outcone of your eppeal of a felooy convlctlon by the Clrcult
Court of Plckens County' Alabana.

As you are aware, the Board of Educatlon had scheduled a hearlng on

your statuB a8 a tenured teacher, whlch hearing waa contlnued at the reguest
of yo,, and your couneel and based upon the aforementloned reque8t for leave
of Lbsence wlth condltlonel reslgnatlon. The Board Det 1n a epeclal called
neetlng on Noveubet 27, Lg7g, to conslder your reque8t and voted at that
tlue to grant your regueet for a leave'of absence durlng the pendency of
you. "pp.al 

provlded itrat the condltlonal letter of reelgnatlon wae recelved
iortnwftn. fnat letter havlng been recelved, the actlon of the Board has

becoue flnal and you are hereby notlfled that the offlclal request for leave
of absence has beln granted foi a perlod of tlue not to exceed one (1) year
from lts date. Llkewlse, you ere further notlfled that ehould the appellate
court(s) uphold the felony convlctlon then the subnltted condltlonal reslg-
natlon would take effect lmedlately.

' You should aleo be alrare that the prevloue euspenalon of you by the
Board of Educatlon has been supplanted by the leave of absence granted; how-

ever, the Board resenes lte rlght to relnstltute the euspenslon ehould

clrcumstances ln the future dlctate the eaue prlor to any flnal declslon on

your tenured status.

HJC: agJ

CC: !1r. Raynond E. Ward
llr. Troy }lasseY

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Slncerely'

Wllllam tJ. Carpenter
Superlntendent



ttl{uTts 0F Plcruils c()ul{tY B0AnD 0F EDUCAn0il

oeTE--@Jl-l:].2_-

Th. Plcksnt co03y Borrd of Educ.tlon xt ln rrguler..rslon on Daclnb.r 1,. 1979, vlth
th! foltogtnS rlbcre Pt.rcnt: ll...rt. T. !' lJoodrrd' Jr'. Chllrun' J. V' Plrk' J.ch Prt.'
jaoca r;, NolInd und Boyd Edgdorth. Al.o pra.ant ear.6uP.rlnt.nd.nt C.r'.ot.r rnd A.!1at.nt
Suparlutaodant HolllDn.

t. AGENDA APPROVED:

on mtlon IdG by }tr. Ed8,aorth, r.cond.d by xr. xotrnd, thG.8Gnd. rr Pr.'.ot.d by th.
Superlntcndant ua! s.nleuly rPProv'd '

2. HINUTES APPROVED:

On rctlon ErdG by Hr. Nolend, recondcd by Nr, P.ta, thc rlnutat of lha laatlng of llovalbar
f 9, 1979, uart uanlDutlY lPProvrd '

3, lllNtrtEs ATPROVED:

rhc Dlnut.r of th" r.tlng of Novslber 21' 1979 Yorc rlld and on Dtloo Dda by xr' Noland'

aacondcd by l{r. Plta, etra unanlDualy lpproved'

4. PAYROLLS AIPROVEDI

On mtlon udc by Xr. P.t., ..cond.d by Xr'
unanlrcutly rPProv.d.

Flr.t N.tlon.l !8nk of AllcGvl1lc
NovcEb.r Btll Plyroll
Ptckant CountY School Food Sanlc.
Tarcharar Rttlrcrent Syatc chact(r
Grehu Roofln3 ConPenY
Nowrbrr Scholastlc P.Yroll
xov6b.r Crltndrr P.Yroll
Nov.!b.r Adult B.tlc ld. P.Yroll
tlov.lb.r Adult vocrtlonrl Clrt..r P.yroll
NovGabar CoGunlty Educ.tlon Pryroll
Novrabrr Tltlc I Br.ll PeYroll
NovGobar TltlG I St!..rY Pryroll
tlovcnb"r Tltle Iv-C Blll PaYroIl
Novrob.r Tttle lv-C Selory Payroll
,lovob.r CEIA PBE 6rl.ay P.Yroll
Nov.Db.t CftA IJEoS Elll P.Yroll
Novcnbcr CETA UEoS SrlorY PaYroll
NovGobtr CETA In-School Bill Pryroll
liov.Eb.r CETA ln-Schoot Srlary Pryrol'I
Novclb.r Tltle vl-B Slhry Payrol'l

Prrk. thr lolldlna peyrollt for llovlrbcr vcrc

Chcck I
66r
662-1200
162
7 61,764
766
7 ?0-1067
1068-1r 7 3
tlr9-u95
I I 74-117E
1196-1r99
122-l 36.200-
tl7-199
1.3

44-50
.. ,.201-210. r ;

105,106,109
107 ,108
305,308
106.307
30-42

s 34,920.23
56,t29.5t
98,814,E2
23,lO2.rl
11 , 306,00

t6t,722.28
62.564.64
t..710. 33

E70, 57
497.22

7, E52 .09
!8,1 60,9r

,85.43
2,346.54. -l.a!6.39 --' --

73. t0
961. .1t
146.50
962.28

2 , 36E. 88

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5. A.A.S.B. CONFERENCE:

The Sup.rtntendcnt dircutrcd ylth the Eoord thc Strlka H.nt8arent Conf.rcnc. rponrorcd by

th! A.A.S.B. ln t{onrSomry on Fcbrsry I rod 2. 1980. On mtlon udc by Hr. Ed8aorth' .ccoodcd
byllr.Nol.nd'theBoardm.olDutly.uthorlzedth"suPlrlnt.ndcnttopr.-rcBl.t.rBoardchslr.
Bn llood.rd, Eorrd HeEbGrt Prta, Park rnd Nolsnd, rnd SuParlnttndcnt CrrP'nt'r'

6. PROFESSIONAL LEAVE GRiIIIED:

ThG supcrlntrnd"nt callad rttantton to tha raqucatl of tha suPartntandcnt' Dr. Guntar rnd

It ry Hlld.r Go rtt.nd profrrtlon.l ...tlnt3. on rctlon [dr by l{r. Prrk, ..condtd by ltr.
Edgesorth, ch.aa raqu.ttt verG mantEutly rPProvGd by tha Borrd'

7. PERSONNEL APPROVALS:

on mtlon Eadc by !lr. Prrk, rccondcd by llr. PrtG, th. Borrd unrnlDoully rPProv.d thc fol-
l.illnt urJ.ttan pcrlonnrl rccomcndltlont aa Pr3scntGd by the SuPrrlntcnd'nt'

Elployocnt:
luthtc L. HcKlnrtr), r..cher tt Altc.vlll. Elemnt.rry, Gff.crlv. Nov..bcr 27

rGrcto c. lhthcock, t.achcr !t Altc.vllt. ttlddlc school, .ff.cttv. llovcobcr l3
Houston Har Locki!rt, 6ubrtltutc tarch.r/etda at Allccvtlla EltDantlry' off.ctlvc Dcc. l0
Th"ln! B. NcHull.n, TlrlG I t.achGr !td. rt AllctvltlG ElE.ntrry,.ffccttvc D.ccub.r l0
Dllnr Lrvcnd€r. Tttlt I taachcr alde 6t clrrollton' 'ffcctlvr 

Janulry 3 - lterch 2l
Robart LG. tJllder, Dch.nlc.t tchool bu. t.rl8'G'.ffGctlv' Novenbcr 26

Profe!rlonal Laeve:
Herbcrt L. L.tender rnd Jane. R. Elllott. to rttcnd NASSP rctr,n8 ln Xl.al 8c!ch, Florlds'
Jonurry lG14' 1980

8. t{rGCIE BOZEilAII IIEARINC:

onnotlonnadcb'Hr.Park,lecondedbyHr.Edtdorth,tllGEorrdunanlrcualy,PProvedthe
contlnu.nca of e hcaring for mag,gtc Borcnen ber:d on har raquart for I lcevc of ebrcncc end

condltlon.l rcslSnatlon.

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muE 0t Plfl[tls mffiI B0rm ff DUCAnoil

g17r Dlc:rbrr 17. 1979

g. STXIDARD SCH@L AT ALICEVILLE:

Th.suP.rlntrndtn!.dvlr.dth.!o.rdth.tttr.-tlott'tgnyouldbrlnlSnt3oxryontl.rd.y'
D.cub.r 18. to d13cu. '1;;;;t;;-;;tit-ot 

or g""iiioi P'rtonn'l th' tlo'l rPprovrl of thr

.r.nd.rd rchool et errcortii.-iii-iiliy rcnor. n. i"tii.l-.a"at.d lh. lorrd th'l h' rould

.iiJ tn.a coplrr ot th' flnrlls'd Plrn''

10. FOOTIALL GAHE RECEIPTS:

A r.vld of footb.lr 3.t. r.c.lptr dl.clor.d- tMt th.r. e.r .n approrlr.t. tv.nty-llv' P'r

c.irlncr..r. 1....-d.n".tl;'a::;;i:r;-ii-i1"r.".-c"-ii rn rczC ir oppo.d to !97t 'nd 
rn

lncr.r..ln 3rr. r.c.lpr, "i-.ipriifii.ry 
tlrty p.r-".i. alr to tt[ lncrlmd Prlcr ol tlcltt3'

11. IHPACT AIDI

on mtlon ud. by }{!. prrk, Icondrd by ]ts. Edldorthr th. torrd-9.11?Try 'uthorlt'd
th. sup.!ln!.nd.nt !o rk' l;;ii";;i;;;1-i;ni9t eii -ati tlrl' t of Publlc lrv !l-t74 rnd

furth.r d..ttn.c.d hlr ' 
.il'iiiiai. euthortird r.pr..Gr.tlv. 1n eny uttrr r.lrtlnl to lh'

l4rct Ald .PPllc.tlon.

L2. ADJOUillr

on Dtlo! ud. by xr' PrrL. 
"cmd'd 

by Xr' td"uorthr th' !o'rd u" untDutly 'djoum'd'

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Rer'. Olrt'ER & ll'.enD

^?totifY3 
At t.Aw

loro uNrvclsl"Y foul.CvatD
Ttrrlor. AtJr^.r.

Xovcober lE, 19E0

C

llr. Ilnncth L llrooas
Alrbeor Educrttoo Assoclrtloo
Port Offlcc Dor 4177
lloottoocry, Alrbene 16195

lE: llrggtc 3. lozcuan

Dcer lca:

Ar tou v111 rccell, thc rbovc ladlvldtrel nr raploycil rs t tcrchcr
ulth thc Plckcar County loCrd of Educetloa ntrcrcupon ahc rrs notl-
ftcd by thc loard of ltr propoeed cgocclhtloa of br coDtrlct for
tbc prlnery rcrron that rhc hed bcca coavlctcd of e fcloay offcase
by thc Dlc},cor Couoty Clrcult Gourt, tht hrd rcgucttcd r lcsvc of
ebrcncc vlthout pey, rtrlch rcqucst ra3 Sr.atcd D, thc loerd vlth thc
lhltrtloo thrt Dot Grcccd mc tc.r. 

If I hrvc aot bcrrd frou the Supcrlatcodcnt rcgardlag h.ls rccclpt of
r acqucst frm !lrr. Dozealn by thc flrtt -cL ln Dcccubcr, I Y111
.33rac thet rhe docs aot latcad to rec} thc rae end vlll rdvlgc the
loerd to rcschcilulc thc cenecllrtloa hcarlag rad provldc both you
rod hcr vlth aotlcc of tts detc.

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^DOrtC33t c ao! at trr t!.ot

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R.lY, Or,rvra & Wrno
ATTOINIYI AT IITV

toto ut{lYtttlft louLtvAto
|rutsAr.ore" At^l^ra

lloverrrher 18, I c8oaoaotx raltli laY
? waL?lt ol'lvll. Jr.
taYroiD f. walo
w. carlioi tat3qi.a

ratLriao aDolttS:
o. lor aa ll, ta.oa

?tLtrHoxl
atta cool lol

taa-ala.

rlf g. '14 ao t a C. Eozrnen
Poct Of f I ee rln:.: T
ttttcovlIlor Atrhana \:td4?.

l'1.:! Dlcl,^na nountv Boerrl or Edrreetton-propoiad Contraet
fancellnt{on.
17.;1r'7. Ot 'lhlenee requ?nt.

I)Oaf ttfq. rl6ranan:

ln varr rrl I1 rocnll, the Ptelrenn eorrntv tloord of Pdrrcat{on hnd Fehe-
'l11tarl o harlJpp rar Doeenhor 4,1979 for the nurpose of ennetderln?
tt'e eaneel I at ton 6F vorrr pnpl6wlent eontrret io e tcaeher. The
orottn'ls tor tha nronosod eeneel let lon t neltrded, ationq othirq , the
fnci trtet voil hed henn ConvlCted hy the DlCkans CDuntV Clrerrlt
corrrt nf n .ol onv of renge. ynu hed reqrraetcrl thi? the Bonrd ,renr
vorr .1 lervp 6 ihqencl vlthorrt Drv Fon.ltnn tho olrteon|e of vou ap-
noot of tl'lc eanv{etlon. l1rle requaBt rraa qrented bv tha p.onrd
ulth tlra 'llrourslo tlre? lt not cxeeed ono votto

Tlrp rlno vo.tr !onv+ of ahganco qrnnted ht'the roard lr n\orrt to.c-
nlro nn'l , unlass a n.!!, raquest tn na,lo on thc tane haats i.r tlr; ln-
I tlel rrlarreste tho Board uorrtrl be nlaee,l ln r Ootllton of havlne ro
reselrc'lrrl e thn hearl nr.. and nroeoed wl th ttre Droporod eonf raet e.'tn-
enJ latlon. Tt theraf nra ull I he anerrrrhent uron you to feeuhnlr a
rlar,t rerrrt^e? fnr n lanvo 6f n\eenec r.'lthorrt ntv an,t that ttrl r r.-
flrraqt be nrrntttrd Rq ..oon ar pornlh!r Bo thtt tt eln he off lel.rl lv
cnnnl,lere.l hv rhe ltonfd.

vou- iro'nnt actlon 1e encnrtrrlo'l ln orrler to rvolc anv rltfflerrltl^s
rr.qnr4tnz Torrr rtrtttr! o

Sl nearol v,

?ev, Ollver enrl llarrl

prt !/n4

?ri l.r{![l4q tr. narnontot
I{ennath t.. ThomaR

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Nov 2

I
0 1980

Anynond E. tiefd



/ 75 6 J 77

Certlfled P29 7736279

P. O. Drawer T
ALiceville, Alabama 35442
November 24, 1980

I.,1r. WiIIiam W. Carpenter, Superintendent
Pickens County Board of EducaEion
Post Office Box 32
Carrollton, Alabama 35447

RE: Leave of Absence

Dear 1,1r. Carpent,er:

Pursuang to the provisions of Section L6-24'L3, Code of Ala-
bama L975, I hereby request a leave of absence without Pay
Fentrng Ehe outcomL of 9Y- gPPeal of a felony offense convic-'tion i; the CourEs of Alabama.

If this request is granted by the Board, lt would be with the
condition ihat the -harges and hearing addressed to me in
your letter of Novembe_r 5 , L979, will be held in abeyance p_end-
ing the disposition of rnY aPPeal.

This requesE for leave shalL be for the pefiod required to
appeal riy conviction, which is not expected to exceed one (1)
year from this daEe.

My Ehanks in advance for the Board's prompt and considerate
attention to this request.

Sincerel

Z*
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NoV 2 { 1980



L

TII{UIES ()T PrcMilS C()UW B()AND ()F EDUCAII()I{

P1p Deccuber 5' 19E0

rI.4.-ry

Th. Ptckent Couty Bo'rd of Educ'tton Det ln tP'cl'l 3"tlon on Dccrlrblr 5' l9E0 rt ll:00

r.D. tn Attorn.v n.v ntra'r lr;i";-i;-;;;;tiool'-Airbru' uith tht folloelnt @b'r' pr"cnt:

Hcsrrr. Jrck peto, chrrrnari,-r:;:;;: i"i.ii i.a'r"ya EdS.uorthi Abt.nt: tlr. J' V' Prrk'

A1!o pr"lGnt vcrc Supcrtntcia"ni-itip""ttt rnd Attorn'yt !Lrtln R'y rnd R'y u'rd'

Supcrlntcrdcnt carPtnt'r r:olndcd thc Eo'rd -thrt th' purporc of thl' crll'd rCtlnS' url to

cnablc Boerd Attorn.rr to ;;;';-;;t lorrd !P to d't' o; eli pindrnr llltt'tlon r'lrtlvt co th'

Board and lny othsr ptttot*i--Littr thrt r'qu'red ltltl rdvlc' or 'ctlon'

Attorneys Hlrtlr Rry md Ray Lrrd proc'Gd'd. to-uPdlt' thc Bo'rd on th' nlchrrd Abtton ctl'

.nd th. corder vc. xrrtecy cir;:'il; ldvk;d thc Boerd that th' nlch'rd Ab'ton c"" h'd brrn

realgned to thc Alrbrm s"pilll'coutt'froo thc Court o! APpcrl"nd thlt no furth'r lctlon on

rhe errr of rhe Board r"rr:';:'":;:;""iyl- ir,.v ara.not k;ou uh'n th' supre court vould

r.nd.r i't. d.cl.lon. ctta]t-'".-iitiiti tr rt'rrr vlth tht Flfth ctrcult court of APg"lt ln

Nee orI..ns' ASsln the ttilt"tvt^ti"itla.;ry i1111 it'tt ttttv d1d not hno m to th' Po"lblc

d.clrlon by th. Flfth ct'""it.'ilttt' In both c"'t' thr lolid vould b' notlfttd 1f,dl'ttlv

of rny rctlon or dccllton by thc court3'

supcrlntGndent carP'nt'r thcn rt'd to th' Bord r l'tt'r fail xr'' !L381' s' iortlln

r.qu!!rr.ng. r...v. of.o.."i. ioi-oii-y.ir err."trrr iorcobcr 27, lgEO 9rnd1n3 hrr rPDrel of e

relonv offcnrc uith th. Ar;;;--|";;a ii epp..tr,- Hr ilro rred to th. aorrd. l'tt'r of rtrl8-

natr.oi frou 1.r1t11G r. c"'d:;:;t;;;;i it pi"ttnt co-ti-irgh school' 'ff'ctlv' 
D'c'dtr 4' 1980'

Aft.r dltcu.3lon .nd on tt";;;;;t;i;' of Ghc Bo'rd eiioinlyt' lt vir tho unrnlEur d'clrlon ot

th. Bo.rd rabcr. pr..Gn. ;;;;-;;a.a reo r.qu.rt. b. .ct.d uPon .t !t. r.aulrr t"tln8 on

llondry. D.cGlbGr 15.

Tharc bclnS no furtbGr ltGm of burr,n.3a, on Dllon redc by Nr. Edgworth. 3acond'd by !lr'

xorena, tnc Boeid vrr unrntrcutly 'djourntd'

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ilt{t,m 0F Ptcruils c0tmY mmD 0r [DucAil0il
h^?R Dcceobcr 15. 1980

The Plckcn! Comty Boord of Educ.tlon r"t ln ra3uLr rcralon on Daccnbrr 15, 1980. ln thr
court roo! of thc Ptcl.nt Costy Courthouae ulth th. folldtnt [Db.rr prarantt !l.rrr.. Jrck
Pot", Ch.lrun, Ju. G. Nol.nd ond loyd ldScUorth.nd l{rt. Nrncy p.lrt Abrrnt: Xr. J, V. p.rk.
AIto Prctant rar. SuPallDt.ndant Carpantar, Allrtant Sup.rr,ntand.nt Holllrn and Vocatloul
Drr"ctor H.r Strlpllng,

I. AGENDA APPNOVED:

on Ftloo rdc by llr. Nohnd, ercondcd by !lr. Edgoorrh, th. !o.rd @.olDu.ly.pprov.d
thc .ganda at prartnt.d by thG Sup.rr,ntandrnt.

2. XINUTES AIPROVED:

On rctlon udt by ltr. Edtworth. lecondcd by Hr, Nohod, tha !o.rd @.nlDurly approvad?h. olnutcr of th. retlnS of XovoDrr 17, f980.

3. HINUTES AIPROVED;

On Dtlon l.d. by !lr. Nolrnd' l.cod.d by !tr. Edtdorth, th. lorrd untol.oualy egprovcdth. trlnucGt of th. r..rr.nt of D.c.rb.r 5, 19E0,

4. PAYROLLS APPNOVED:

On mtlon !.d. by llr. Edtoorth, ..cond.d by !lr,
th. folloelnS pryrollr for Nov.Db.rl

Bank of cordo (fcdcill trx)
St.t. At.ncy tor Socl.l Srcurlty
Taacharr' Ratlrarnt SyatG
Novrobcr Blll P.yroll
Plclrnt Co6ty School Food S.nlc.
Nov.!b.r Schol..tlc Pryroll
Nov.Db.r Cal.ndrr P.yroll
Novobcr Strndard School ptyroll
Novcob.r Adult Clr.r Pryroll
Nov.Ebcr A.D.E. P.yrolt
llov.nbcr Toi.I Crr. C.ntGr El11 Pryroll
NovCnhcr Total Crre Crntcr Sehry payroll
Nov.Db.r tr,tlc I Blll Pryroll, I979-8O Fqdr
Row.b.r 11rl..'I Srl.ry Peyrol,I, 1979-E0 Fuadr
llov.nbcr tltl. Mll Peyroll, 1980-El Fudr
LoErber Utl. I Solrry Peyroll,l9S(Ftl Fude
Nar6btr Tltl. IV-C B11l P.yroll
llov.nbcr Tlrle IV-C S.lrry Pryroll
Novmbcr tltl. VI-D Btll P.yroll
Novebcr Tltl. Vl-B S.lrry Pryroll
Nov.Dh€r CETA (PSE) SoLrry p.yroll
Nov.lbcr CETA (YETP) Blll Pryroll
Nov..b!r CETA (YETp) Stl.ry pryroll
!,lovabrr CETA (!iEAt) 81ll pryrotl
Nov.Dbcr CETA (tJtJ\P) Saltry pryroll
Nov.!b.r CETA In-Sch@l Blll P.yroll
Novab"r CETA In-School SrIrry payrolr,

Nohnd, th. Borrd un.nlEutly rpprovGd

Chcch l
633
642,643
649 | 650
6 34-641
731t740
741-t045
1046-1156
1157-1176
t1 77-11 79
I 180-1r92
500-51 3
514-5tE
t l r5-111 7,116 3
lr.lE-I162'- ' :

rll-123,r5E
t24-t57
262-27L
272-289
54-69,88-69
7(F87
109-120
506
500-505
307, !14
308-ll3
207-2O5,2L5-2r6
209-214

I 44,986.64
22,566.49
30, t{9 .67
,6.2O5 .E7
2r,240. 30

t83, 7r8.55
73,03E.52

9, 517 . 14
441.t5

L,345.92
I,585 .02
3,511.35

, L,732.43 -_ _
3r.323,95
2,974 .E6

15.052.49
t. E.2 .00
6,94E.65
2 ,1r8.27
6 ,037 .9 3
3,724.57

65.52
63r.00

68. 99
530. 94
248.47

L,248.91

I

5. VOCATIOIuL IDUC,ATION T,EPOTT:

ttt. lt r StrlPltDt, voatlm.l ldr.tls Dlr.ctorr ttvr. d.trllld r.Dort of thr rtetur ofvoc.tlon.l .duc.tlon ln th. ?tcktnt CouDty tchool.. Xr. Strlpllng dl.trlburcd hrndoutr thttcontilnad Partinant lnforutloo ralatlva to folld-up datt on voc.tlonal atudrota ar to thclrpurault of hlthcr aducrtlon or ln tha yorl,d of rcrL.

6. PERSOI|NEL APPROVALS;

or Dttc rdG by tt- lolmd, rrcondrd by rlr. Edgdorth, th. Eo.rd unrnlmourly rpprovedtha folloulnt urr,ttrn pcraotDl raccndrtlonr aa pruntac by th. sur"rlotGndant.

Rtrlgna tlon:
l.lllle L. lozctun, Cordo [tth Schoo]., cffrctlve Dcc.Eber Iullltc t. Cordcr; Plck.nl County lllgh School, Gff.ctlva Dcceober 4

L.rva of Abtance:
Hrt. l,lattta S. BozGun, All.cavllla Ellmnttry School, crtcnd lcrvG of lblrocc one ycer

throutlr Novcnbar 27, l98t
Hr.' lllrth! s. Fullcr' R.forE Elmntary schoolr cxtcnd leave of abaencc throu8h !t!y 29

Eaployrcnt:
Dontld Jerone FoarGr, cordo Hlgh School, effactlvG Dacenber 4
llrt. Donoa T. Snlth, Rcforo Elanentary ScLool, extand eaployoGnt through Uay 29 (2nd tarn)

Profa6tlonnl Lrave;
[lrs. J.nnct Laccy to tGrv! on rGvtcu tlau rt Fayattc ElGEenttry School, fcbrurry 5 and 6,
I 981

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glas Docabcr 15' 1980

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7. rrNrolcrAl StATl,s:

Tt.suP.rlnt.nd.ntdttcurfcdrlthth.!o.rdthcflnrnclrl.t.tut'Polntlntoutth.t,'t
vould bc ltrPoltlblc tt ttply-tii-ptii or trtr tno"^itit i"t thrt uould b' dut D'cob'r 3l'

The Bo.rd luthori,'d tt't i-titiiitl"iat to r'k th't th3 Brnk of Rcforo r'n'e th' ro'n m

J.nuary 1, l9EI.

8. IIOACT AID FT'NDSI

On notlon udG by !tr' EdSdorth' '3cond'd 
by t{r' Nol'od' th' Bolrd BrnlDutly 'uthorls'd

thc suDcrlntcndent to uh' ;;;i;;;;l;" for trprci-rtd und'r Tlllc I of Publlc Le tl-E74 
'nd

furtha; d.3l8n.red hl!.r t[l'ii.ra'. ruthorl;.d reprrrntrttvc 1n.ny [tt'r a'httn8 to lh'

9. GORDO DUILDING PROJECI: 1D9'ct Ald '9Dllc'tlon'

Tha SuPtrintandrnt rdvltcd thc Boord th't ' 
xctlnS ul' tch'dutrd !t 2:OO I'r' m D'cmb'r

l6 utrh thG Borrd rrchrtrci,-iirir..ri"r e.a.rrrocrri..l ii-ciii" ulth.school' Th! purPott of

rht. ilGt1n8 yould be to fiieiitr'ih..-"t tocrtfon'il'rmUi. tttr ticnftrct to b'8ln rcrL on

et.ir"rn.ty'a..Y1n8r for th' nn bulldln3'

10. xEH SCBooL lusEs:

Th. Sup.rlnt.ndent rdvlrd th' Dolrd thrt h'-h'd r3c'lv'd lEvolc" on th"lshtGtn nd

bu. ch.t.l. but thrt th' b;;;; 'oufi 
not b' colpl't'd untll th' l'tt'r Drrt of J'nu^ry or

F.bru.ry. Thl! eould ...n"iiii ii-Jouii-eo.truty ur rrrctr b.for. th. n.v bu..r vould bc

dcllvcrrd end rodY lor ut''

onDtlonltd.byttr.Edtmrth'..c6drdby}tt.xol.nd'th.!o.rdunrnlrully.uthorlr.d
thr supcrtnt.nd".a .o gr...il'ii. roirorr.S rrrotrttor-i;-ii. cotoo fet 'u t'[ 'nd 

co'ch''n8

rtrff for stnnlnt rhG sa..."i,ra'iro.ieii ctiqroottre."i-ai drllvrr e c< ot th" r"olutlon

ro th. Cordo Scbool.

NESOLUIION

mEREIS' th. Cordo [tth School Footbrlt I::: htt broulht 'ttr 
'on to

Plck.nr Comty rnd thr urrt lilut- tttt lhrouSh th'lr echlrnnt of ' Cl't' AA

8t.t. chaplm.hlP' ald

I,HEnEAS, ln th'lr gurlult of Ghlt dt'tincllon' th' !"' rnd corq

darcnstrrt.d adalrrbla trelir of hulllty' rportrunlhlp' tnd Pcr3'vttlnc'

UHEnEAS. thl! lchl'wxnt t'fl'ctt cr'dlt 
'nd 

f'vonbl' rtt'ntlon r

PlcL.nl couty school.. tttt-iiti-tt'-ttrff' lnd P'taon'r th'n' th'r'for'l

BE lT RESOLVED th't th' Plclisn' CouDty -Borrd of Educ'tlon edd ghclr ct

grrtuhtlont to thr Gordo riigi"it"iitir tt- ttd ttgtt't th'lr p't'onrl rnd

coll.cttve Prldc to aha ttt'i' dlttlnctlv' rchl'v3E nt' 
'nd

BEIrFuRTHERREsoLvEDth.tthGBolrdrtcoSnlz.th..ug.rtorl,..drr!hlP
of corch tJrldon tuck.r tna"iir-titii in tttt ptrtrctpstlon ln th' 'trt' 

foutbell

;i.;;;;; rii it. r.co.a contecutiv' 
'ur' 

rnd

BE lT FURTIIER IESOLVED !h't thlt cmcndatlon b' rd' r Pcrrtr'nt psrr of

Borrd llnutaa.

Ilotr. thta. tlr. tlft"nth dry of D'c"bcr' nln't"n hudr'd tnd 
'13hty'

11. GORDO HICH SCf,OOL FOOTB^LL 
'El!t 

IESOLUTION:

T2. ADJOURN:

onootlon!!d.byllr.tlolend,rrcond.dbyxr.Edtdorth.th.Eotrdylts.llEu.ly
.dJoutrd.

hava
rd



.LIAM W, CATPI,NTER
SuDarrnlandanl

8. WOOOARD, JR.
Pr.sid.nl

IJWC: agJ

CC: Mr. Raymond E. Wardr'
I1r. Kenneth L. Thornas
Board Meubers

Hre. Maggle S. Bozeman
P. O. Drawer T
Allcevllle, Alabaua 35442

Dear !1r4. Bozeuan:

Re: Plckene County Board of Educatlon - Propoeed Contract
Cancellatlon. Leave of Abaence Regueat.

The Board has recelved and would acknowledge your reguest
for leave pendlng the outcoue of your appeal of a coavlctlon by
the Plckens County Clrcult Court of a felony offenee. Ae last
year, your reque8t ha8 been granted by the Board for a pertod of
tloe not to exceed one (1) year. Aleo, the request 18 condltloned
upon your conttnual agreement to voluntarlly reaign ehould the
appeal be denled and the convlctlon upheld.

If thls La not Batlsfactory with you' you ahould notlfy uB

wlthln ten (10) daye of the date of thla letter of your apeclflc
obJectlonB thereto, whereupon the requeBt would be denled and
notlce of the Boardre reachedullng of the hearlng on your contract
cancellatlon would be sent

Slncerely,

PIC}IENS COUNTY BOARD OI.' EDUCATION
Olftco ol lha Sugataai.n6ant

P. O. lor 32 ,hon !67.1102

C RROLLTON.  LAAAU  8OI'7

Decenber 19, 1980

U

{hJL,,J,t2,^
t{1111am I{. Carpenter
Superlntendent

l aGbart ol fhe Eoord

J Y PAFI(.Alrcavrlla
JAxES O NOllNO. Crrrollroo
JACt PAIE. Gordo
tOYO EOGEYYORIx. fl.,orn

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ilnrrrEs 0t Hcx$ls coulilY B0AnD 0F [Ducall0t{

oer:-&.'tl3.-]l!I--

Thr Ptctana County Do.rd of Educatlon Dt ln lpcclrl acr3lon r! 3100 p.l. on Frldty, APrll
3, 19Ef , tn thG Bo.rd rooo ulth th" folloelnB xlbCrr prctrnt: llr. Jrcl P.tr, Ch.lrun, !lr. J,
V. prrt. Xr. JrEs G. Xotrnd, Xr. loyd EdSeorth rnd llra. N.ncy Frlr. Alto prr.cnt ucrc Suglr-
lntrndent Carpcntar. Atrlstrnt Suparlnl"rdat ltolllun and Sup.rln!.ndrnt-El"ct Parhaa.

l. HINUIES APPROVEDT

Tha Sup.rlntcndrnt r..d th! Dinut.t of thc xctlnS of llerch 10' 1981. on Btton ud. by
Hr, Edgcaorth, tGconded by Xra' Frlr, thcy eara oenburly aPProvGd.

2. I|ACGIE BOZE},IAN CASE:

fhc Suplrlntrnd"nt rh.r.d elth thG Bo.rd lnfoiltion th.t th. App.ll.t. Court h.d uph.ld
thc clrcult courtr. dGct.lm tn ftndln3 ltr3. Hr88,tr lot.un, lour lchool t..ch.r, 3ullty ot
votlr fraud, HG furlhlr lnforud th. lorrd thrt Hr. nay Uardr Dorrd attorn.y, had advtaad hl!
th.t thc loard could not acc.pt Hra, lorEnrr rarltnatlon rt rt.tad ln hat lattrr raqucttlnt
r leevr of rbaancc unlr,l aha hrd rxhruttcd thG rpparlt procaat.vrllrbla to har throuSh tha
Judtcl.l ay.t.D of Altb&o.

3. FINATTCIAI STATUS:

ThG Suplrtntandent ahrrcd ulth thG lorrd th. flnenclel atltua lr of Aprll l, polnlln8 out
thttr bacauaa of urmcr rGrthar r"tultlnS ln raducad arpcndlturtt for furl and othGr coat-
cutrtng.trp., th. lorrd hrd rcduccd ltr.rp.ct.d dGflclt by $3O.0O0 durlnt fubrurry rnd llirch.

t , 6()Rm BUILDINC PROJECTI

Th. Sup"rlntandGnt.dvlrcd thG 8o.rd that ha had contactad Dr. Lryna T.rtu., Strta SuP"r-
lnt.nd.nt of Educrtlon, rnd Hr. Cerol Hlrrlldinr yith th. St.t. lutldr.n8 CoEfu.lon r.trt1v.
to r.curlnt 575,000 .ddttton.l fmdf co .nrbl. th. Do.rd to .cccpt the lou bld on thr Gordo
llbnry-.clanc.-adnlnlttr.tlvr bul.ldln3 ra d.rltn.d. H. furthcr .dvtr.d th. lorrd thrt llt.
Hlr.lldlnG hrd c.ll.d.t l1:t5 r.r. on lJ:dnerd.y' Aprlt I' rdvltln8 th.t th! St.c. lulldlnS
Cour.r.lon h.d rDprov.d th. rddltlontl $75'000 rr rrqurrtrd.

Aft.r dl.currlon tnd on Etlon rd. by Hr.. F.lr, rcondrd by Hr. Prtk. th. lo.rd m.nl-
rcurly evardrd th. lw btd to TLB Con.tructlon Caprny (bld tebubtlon'on flle). Th. Dtton
rlro !tlpulrtad thot tha Suparl,ntandlnt advl3c tha archltGct to contlnu. to natottta rlth
TLB ConGtructlon CoEpany ln an rttapt to raduca tha cort of thG conrtructl,on. ll mnGt could
bc :orcd ln thl! rnnar, tt rould ba tPcnt on conncctln8, covrrrd vrlkvlyr.

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TILEPHONE
AIEA CODE 203

la 3 -556.

!!r. t@nneth L. fhous
Alabana Education Association
Post office Box {177
t{ontgonery, Alabana 36195

Re: Pickens county Board of Education - Maggie Bozenan

Dear Ken!

As you will recaIl, Ua991e Bozeman was a tenured teacher with ttre Plckens

@rurty school system wtren Ln 1979 ehe l€s convictedl I'n the Plckens @unty circuit
Court of a felony offense. Etcre rcre charges brought agal'nst her on a proposed

cancellation of her contract, the naJor charge bein; thai of-ttre felony conviction'

At that tirne, ehe requested and secured a one yearra leave of absence fror the

Boardt pendting her appeal of tlre conviction' She again requested a cecond leave of

abence which *" g-t-ttted for another year while her aPPeal continues'

,IdonothaveanyuP-to-dateinfo:mationtnrtthelastrprdlhavelsthat
,her appeal was dleniedl t trre Alabana courts andt that perhaps she is pursuing it
ttrrough the Federal cor:rt. ll'hat roay or Day not be totally accurate but as I Eay

it is wtrat la shonn on aooe old notes J'n ny file'

The uatter has again reached the polnt where r,e are approaching trc yeals

dorrn the road froa the date tte-otigirr-al hearing was echeduled to be heldl on the

eontract cancellation Datter. It;-;ardl has given sone prelirnlnary indication
that lt does not rrish to contlnue this uatter firrther' In that regard' the

current leave of absence is eet to er<pire soDetiDe early next nonth' If
necessary, I will determine the eract date I't i6 Eet to e:<pire anil will have the

hearing re-sclEduled accordtingly. In lleu of-that, lt rould appear to be in

her best interest to tender a rlstgnatl.on to the Board, effectlve at and upon

the e:<piration of ttre pentllng leave '

please contact your client and let ne know what her 1rcs5'tion is on ttris
auggested nethod of dlislnsing of thls natter. I rr,tll adhvise the superi'ntendent

that tf nothing dlefinitive has been deteainedt bryr November 23' 1981 then it
uould be appropriate to have tne rrearing re-scheduled based upon the charges

that are still Pend'ing.

Rrv, OLtvER & lVrnP
ATTONNEYS AT LAW

2O2O UNIVEISITY IOULEVARD

Tuecrrocr. AuDAx.A

Norrenber 11, 1981

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cc: l,lr. ilerry Parham, Sulnrintendent

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Rey, Or.rvBn & W,rnu
ATTORNEYS AT L W

2O2O UNIVERSITY SOULEVARO

Tulrc'euoore. AurneYe

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Mrs . Maggie S. Bozernan
Post Office Drawer T
ifi"."ille, Alabama 35442

Re:

RW: rm

PickensCountyBoardof.Education-ProposedContract
c."""if"tion (Leave of Absenee)

Dear l{rs. Bozeman:

AsyouareauTare,.thqleaveofabsencegranted.bythe
pickens counti-B""ia-tf-Educatlon in accordance with a coPy

of rhe "r,"Losld"ilii"I-f;;;ltl.-f""9 
Suoerintendent' ls set

ro expire. Ai"ol-!i J.s gf-i"-ioti"tion lna-itrat of itre Board's

rhar your .pplli'o-g-tt" flf6"i-"onviccion has been denied at
all availab1"-i!"Ii"l-'i"cf"aiirg the United States Supreme

CourE. rn .""ira"""t 'ith-t;G request for leave with condi-
tional resig.,iil;;;-it now Lppears approoriate to have your

resignarion accepted and yoil'"rpi"yilLrrt' with the Board

terminated.

under advisement of counseL, tt^te Board req-uest! Your
confirmarion';;-;ii; """artlo".i-i""ignation. 

You should

direct your "o"fit "tio4 ;f-;hi"-i."i8,t'ttion to Mr' Jerry Parham

in writirrg to il"-"ii""tive-ifr"aiqi;|i: Ttre Board meets this
Monday, Decemb;; ii;-iief 

-""aliff act on the resignation at
rhar time. ri ir has rrot i"ceived any.word froo you by then,

the Board *iii ti "ari;;6 ;; re-schedirle a hearing on vour
contract, ""rr.!riltio"-a"- 

notrfy you accordingly'

SincerelY,

RAY, OLIVER & WARD

Ray Ward

Enclosure

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JERNY H. 
'ARHAM8cparhlandanl

JACX T. PATE

Pr.aldanl

PIGKENS GOUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
Orllc. ol th. Sug.rlnlandanl

P.O. Bor32 Phon.St?tro2

GANROIITON, AI.AEA},A 3O..,

December 15, 1981

Mrs. Maggie S. Bozeman
Post Offlce Drawer T
Al1cevl1le, Alabana 35442

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Dear Mrs. Bozeaan:

Ttre Plckens County Board of Educatlon has dlrected that
you be notlfled of lts declslon to re-achedule a hearlng on the
proposed cancellatlon of your contract. You are further notlfled
that the Board has deternlned to Ealntaln your suspenslon from
your teachtng dutles, pendl.ng the hearlng as ls set out herelnbelors:

The hearlng le Bet on the 8th day of JanuarT, 1982, at
9:00 orclock a.8., ln the Central Offlces of the Plckens County
Board of Educatlon ln Carrollton, Alabana.

The reasons glven for this proposed actlon are Ehe B!tre as
outllned ln the orlglnal contract cancellatlon notlce aent to you
under date of Noveaber 6, L979, a copy of whlch ls attached hereto
and lncorporated herln as lf ful1y Bet out. Your failure to confirm
a condi.tlonal reslgnatlou tendered the Board along wlth yourearller
request for leave of absence has left the Board ln a posltl.on that
lt felt re-schedullng of the hearing rras necessary to protect lts
lnteres t.

If you deslre to contest thls proposed cancellatlon, then you
should fl1e wlth the Board of Education at least flve (5) days
prlor to the hearlng your lntentlon to contest. You may also
select to have your hearlng elther publlc or prlvate and have your
attorney preaent. You also have the rlght to aubpoena wltnesses on
your behalf accordLng to the te::as and provLslons of Sectlor. 16-24-9
of the Code of Alabaua, !8.

If you have any questlons concerrllng thls entlre procedure,
please call thls offlce and werd.lI do our best to answer the sane.

Slncerely,

f:ia-

U.mDarr ot fh. 8o.d
J.V. PARX, Atic.vllt.
JAMES G. NOLANO, C.r?olton
llns NANCY FAtn,cordo
IOYD EOGEWOFTH. n.tofln

)ry Y f;'* -

Jerry H. Parhao
Superlntendent

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PUBLIC HEARING

PICKENS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

THEPICKENScoUNTYBoARDoFEDUCATIoNoFFICES

CARROLLTON, ALABAT'IA

January 8, L982

9: L5 A.M.

IN THE },IATTER OF:

I'IAGGIE S. BOZEI'IAN

Appearlng for the Board:

Mll"lOND E. WARD
Ray, Oliver & Ward
2O2O UnlverslEy Boulevard
Post Offlce Box 65
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35402

Board Members Present:

Jack T. PaEe, PresldenE
J. V. Park
James G. Noland
Mr6. Nancy Fair
Boyd EdgeworEh
Jerry H. Parham,

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Dl.trl l:o e()rr!, of D LCl<,en S Cottllt'r ,

Alerbarr;t (lircuLt (lorrrt Intli ctmcnt
rlatert llorrertl:eti 1o73 in tlre
mntter of tlre l'ltate verstls
'lagqi-a Il . rlozcnan

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lnatter of State of Alahana verlius
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ernplo*ment statrrs of Roa::<1 ernnloyee r1::s ' 'lagg:t-e

iloz(:nall . rlrs. ]lozerran Ls rrot here at this tLvne '

I rroul<l asl: l'tr. IIa::rl i.f- he or the t'irrperintanderrt

has anvtltirr:', t-\e" r'ouLrl lil..e to nllr3uc ln thLs r"latte::

"it-Jr he:: ,lot hei-n1 here.

It'n..nA]l'ilAll:lrrorrlrlirrstl-i]:etosav'tlrat

slre rlid f,et reJ',istererl letters antl is arlare of thi:';

talcirrg pLace, arttl I rvouLd 1il:e to turn Lt over to

'tr. IIertl.

'111. t!n RD : Ol:a'',' . \lhat T r'rou1d 1tl:e to rlo f i-rs t

anfl thls i.s for tfie purDose of the recortl, ]Jol> Iil''ol'ns

is the Coul:1: rr.aporter Icre frorn ljlro:ies I'.eportj-nl',

service , anrl L t'lrin!: j1r. sJrores rrorrlrl Lllr-e f lrs t to

irave the' nern'lref s of' the Boartl ' antl this is f or tlre

recortl, i,lc'nt-1f v tlternselves at EIlis ootnt '

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eaclr one state !ri's nane Rnrl the rlj'strj'et ]to llPlrr"-

sent..i Arj rlei'l.l)erc of; the ltoa::c of Ildr'reatiOn'

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BIRI\IINCIIAM.

NG SERVICES
Al.ABAl\lA

Distri-ct o r: Dicl:ens (lount.r.

'1\. lij)GlirIOnTlI: Borrrl nrlqe';or:th, llst:rlet one,

1e {lo rn , .\ I a'lr;lr la .

^'lt'4. l.\T11.: IInl1qr7 Falr, Cordon nlst:: j.Ct.

'lP. iloj,A.llD: .TAnes C. lJoland, Cn::ro11ton.

r{R. PATI|: f an'l .Tacl'. T. Date, Chalrman of. tlre

Boar:d.

'l\. lIAI1l): All.so nl:esent, of. eorlrse, is
'1r. -ro-ri:?'r narlran, riuoerr.ntenrlent, and n.zself , ..arz

I'Iard, RS tl'e Board Atto:rnerr.

.Trrst for the nrtrnories of the reeorrl J rrorrld

aqain state that the tine sho!:n l-n the Letter or

notice Eo :[::s. l]r>2s1-1^r, relati-rre to the charges slro:r

9: n0 '!rere i:r l:!te Central of f i-ees of the Board of

trlrrcation. IIc are ln these offlces at thl_s tine.

I t:n lool:in:l at n cLocl: oll tlte oya11. The ann::o:<inate

ti-rre is 1}:L7. ?he Boarrl converred at lzOrl thj-s norni.n
ilr:q. lJozerran lras not baen he::c, nor lre:: rerrresentat{-rr

rnade an annenranen on he:: helra.J-f .

'11. "ATli : AL 1 rlght . 'la'r 7 s tate aL so tlrat

tlre Durnose of ou:: ncetLng torla.r l-n for eonsi.deraflon

of nossJ.lrle eaneellation of the Gnnlo'r,!ent contract

of llrs. llozenan oll tlre basis of t'?re rrritterr chartten

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ALABAl\lA

that have beerr rtatle. Ilvidellce wl11 be tal:en fr:onr

r,ritnesge!i callerl at tlre request of Ehe Srtperl.nte:rrlertt
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or the Roarrl AtEornev, and also f ron llrs ' Rozenan

or !rer attornev, shoulrl slle lre ltere'

.1r.. I]\P'D : J)o voll lrave an!, rrltnes ses t.lrat r,()t1

r.rou1,1 lil'.e to call at tlri's tJ'ne, of "lesle'rrat:e?

^1r]. rI,^p.I): J,et qle f irst state ,l:ef ore t,e I,"t

intrltlree.uj..lence()rtlrerritnesBesLlratttreof{.o'{.nn1

notice l.Ins senr- hael'. .1n llorrerqbor of 1ct7o ' shortl.'

afgel.iIrl;.liozet'tatt,a9t]reevl.rlerrce,l.lestrhml.t,rri.1l

shor,rr rJsS convicte,l of a felorrrr of fensr: ln the

e trcu{.t (lotrrt of Ptcl<ens Corrntv'' ?he Boar<l ' af te::

sendinr', a letEer to '1rs ' l']ozeman ' 85 \'e sulrnit tlre

evir.lence tr!I1 furthe:: s]rorvr r'f,ot€ a lettar to t'!re

Boar..lutttlertlateof}Iolret:lrerl?.t'lr,Statingt.ttat,
,,Du::srrant to fiection Lfr,- - 2h,-- fi, Cotle of 'r\'l-;1trrlna'

1!75, I an lrerellv notiJlrTin,' Itotr that I inten'1 to

contestElrenronosctlcance].lationo!na'contracr.

en,l LshnLL'lre renresetrEc'l ll)l' 1-ega1 eotrnseJ' at 11ro

loa::rl hearirrq sc1terlrrletl f or -'1e{!rla" ' Deeemlrpf /" 1-n?^

I<]esi.reanrrbli-clrearl.nq.irreqrrestfora].i.stoc.

iricrresse!! rri1l. lre r.ratle rlitiri-n t'lre next fer'r 'la'zs'

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.{ lreari-nlI ttren torlav J-n accordanee tr:l'th trre

Statrrtes of ,'rl-alrana nertai-nJ-nJ; to tenuretl cmnLo'rt'es

fo:: lr,oar,Js o1i erlrreati-on tlj-11 he one!1. Thl.s Ls nt

the req'lent o f 'trs . Boze:'tan . She l-s not here to

r,ritlrclra'r tlrat ::eqrrect. llo, the \earinq 'rl-l'1 trP

ope11. Tr.!e nerli.a rrilL l.e a1l-o're.l to renaln, an'1

an:/ otlre::s trtat a::e interesterl.

on }e|alf of the lloerd then, sorl Ln sttnport

of Elre elra::iies tlrere are se'le::a1 thirrqs 1r'rant to

f irst have narl:erl hlt E!re Court Renorter anrl tttl 'rl-l'1'

inEro <luc r: tlrerr . Tlre s e i. terrs lrotrl rl cons i. s t o f

Boarrl rrirrrrtes ancl LeEters to and frorn 'llrs. Bozenan

anrl or '!re:: attornevs :relative to the notLce of tlre

charpSes, tlreir resnonse, arrtl tlre settLng of the

heari-ng, and ln arlrlLtion , there rrl1l he lette::s tl''al:

r.r11l ocrf ain to t!te r:arltrest l-'v g'!re I-''oartl of a

conrl.j.tional resl-qnatiorr of ltrs. !',ozenan tlrat r?As

macle Ln con.1'.rtretJ-on tnl-th. "' 7r14r1rrs t f or Ln 3"tl of

.atrscnct: rrlrcrr t'l:is rnatter f irst arosc tracl: j-n 1'''l7n '

Tl:e ninrrtes vi11 ftrrthe:: slto:r thnt tlr.e lloarrl

consitlerr:,1 this rl::i-tten rcrluent h:' llrs ' llozctlan 
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clenied '!>1, tlre Apnellate Corr::t. The Anoellate Corrrt

of tlre lltate of. ,4.1a'!ranA, anrl to nt, LnfOrmation, the

Suprerre (lorrrt of- tfie llnitoql Stateq has rlnelLne'l t:o

ovcrturn E[c convicEion or otfuarrrLse entertain anv

further: rilatEers Dertainin; to the apoeal. The

conditional resLgrtatlorr Elren rrould, irr mv oni-nion,

be before: fhe Board an. i-t tras accented !:l' the lroa::d'

bactr: in 107r. There iraq a request of llrs ' Rozentan

E\is year allter inforrlation cane tlraE flnal aloeal

availal;Le to he:: rras rletlierl that slre confi.rrn thl-s

corrrlit lonnL res iEnation .

^t 
n Roa::rl Tncetinq at':'1tl.ch I t,as Dresent and

these raen'!rers of the Ilon::r1 trere Dresellt, ?,1ten asl:-e11

to conf irn t!rat, 'lr!i. nozelvtan rlec1l-nerl and sf-ntc(l

tl.rat "re rrorrlrl t1flr/e to tnll'. to her l6rrrr7r7. Tha decJ-qi

...ra!i tlren natle llas crl llnoll t1v reeoronenrlat ion trrat a

hearIn3, be sclre<lule<l anrl held h'r the l"oard ' strne:ri-n-

tenrlent Parharr, oCco::din13 to tlre evitlertce an'l tlre

Cocrrnents that rrj.1L be lrrtroduced sent a ner'' noti-ca

to llr:s . Bozerral inf orrning, her of tlr.e hear j.nq to(tA\7,

of the tirre and of the nLace, ancl rre aro lrere Doi'?I

anrl as I sa!rl, 'lrs. :Jozertan J's not !rere '

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volt en rr'rilssB a clrrorroLontcaL ltst of p.oarrl. ninr.tteq

an.l eor:resnon,lence ref lectinq the chnrrleei, the

lenve of alrsenee rerlrrest, t:he eon<lJ.ttonal- res{,qnatinn

acceptance 1)'/ the Jloa::rl, And follorl rlD eonnunt-eatJ on:;

all nprtaLllin.,, to thi s lreartn[ Eorla.r on tlte terrr{.-

nati.on of tlte e-trplovment contract of !iagq,le Iioze,rlan

f ron the I) j-cl:ens Count'r lloa::d of ErhrcatLon.

You nat, feel free to narl: tlrat as'one e:<!ribit,
and tlrere are nrrrrl€rous latters anrl doerrments ln tJrat

rrael'-age.

('Ihererrnon, saLrl doeunent
T,?ari rceel-rrerl anrl na::1,-crrI
fo:: i.dentLfl.eatLon as
i:lhth{-t rro. 1. )

'l!-.. llAnD: For thc frrrther nrlrnoses of tlte r4eo

T :.'ortlrt 1i-1,,o to g1l-.e tlre Iloverltro:: (tl.!, LnTa _t-ctte:: to
'rlrs. 'lo?nn,at) t:e1atl-rre to t!.e elr.a::qen nnd. harze that
read into the r:ecor<l. ?lre 1-etter, on the letterl:ea,'l
of thc Picl:r::rs rlount'r lloard of Ilrlrrcation, arldresserl

to'!rs. ll,rl!8ie q. ilo:err:rrr, P. r). j)::ave:: T, ,,l1Lce.,.ri-lle

l lalr::na 3\44?-:

t'Dca:: 
. [rs. i].zr:r,tan: Tlre pJ.cl:en, C.rr,rrl, Boarrl.

of llrlucaEiorr arrtho::izetl ne to rrot if 'r ./ou tha.t tlre

loarrl j.s con!ii-rlerrlng, a callcellatlorr o.f rrorrr eontr-aet.

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the lloarrl has,ieEerrrj-ne,1 to susnenrl v()ll frorn lrollr

teac!rinq <ltrties, affcctJ-ve irrrnedl-atel'r, nendinq a

hearinq as set otrt'lrareLrt lteLorl.

"^1'\ hearinf,, has bcen scheduled on Tuesda'r,

1;ssgrnlr€f lr, 1079, Bt 10 : O0 a.m. ln the Board roon
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aE the CcrrtraL of fice locaterl in Carrollton, A1aban.r.

"?he ilrouttrls uDon which vour contract may he

canccllcd. :rre found in I'iectLon L6-24-iJ of the Code

of Alabana, 1075, flnrl rrhich appear a$ f ollorrs:

"ltor inconpetenc'r, J.nsrtllorrlination, neJlleet

of rluf-'r, -i-rrrlorality, '1us tlf tab 1e rlecreeBe in tlte

aur:r'l)cr of EeactrLnq nosi.tions or otlrer goo.l and .jtrst

caus e.

"Tlle f oLlotlin:,, sDecL f ic cltargee ha..re been nade

in relati-on to voll:? nerfornance as a teaclrer {-r1 the

systen:

"Clrarp,e one, vollr convi-ction b.l the Circrti-t

Court of- Picl:errs Oottntv, AlatraTna, of a f elonv of f ense

uncler tJre la:rs ;ttrrl stattrtes o.[ flre fiLate of A1a1:al:l;l .

t'(:)lr:rr:5e ;113) 'lour f ailrrre to follor'r th9: :ruIcs

o f )rorrr sunesri s J-n14 nrLncLoal re:Iarrlins s i-qning in

at the l:eqlnnityi of t'lre school tla'r.

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,reel:1:r lesnon nlans to vollr prLncioaL '

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contlprr{.rto, erlrtcatJ-otr nJ'ans to rto1lr p::l-ncinrl n'';

rer.!ttJ.r:erl.!1./tlreooli.ctesoftherie.!..ens,iourtt'l

Rqard of I'l4treatLon.

" (CIarge 5) T-rtsrrhor:cllnatLon reg'arrllng vor11r

f ailura to abLrle l-r''r o:: follotr the <llrecti'ons and

in!rErtrctions of "o"t nrLneipal antl/or tshe aesistant

superintcntlent re3,arrllng tlre deflcj.errcl-es rlescrl.!le11.

in narag,::anlrs ?',3 antl 4 a'bove'

"T.J: r'o11 rlesi::e to contest thi-s pronosetl

cancellatlon, tlren 17611 tilrlst f 11e rrLth t'!re Roard of

]iducaElorratleastf,.verla.lsnrJ.ortothehea::inq

vour i-ntanti-otr to contest ' vou rqa" alqo neLeet:

to harle !totl!: h.enrLn", ei'tlrer trrrrli-e o:: nri-rrate antl

have vour attorne'v nreso'nt' llorr also lrarle the rJ'qlrt

to subpoena rritnesses on rrour herrarf accordi-n; to

tlretermsatrrlprovisionsofsectionL6-24-9oftlte

Co<1e of Alallama, 11!7'r '

"If voll 'lrave anv ouesElons concernlng thts

entireprocetltrre,pleasecallthlsofflceantlrrerlil].

<loourlresttoanst''e::tlre$ane'f;lncere1v'I'!j-l-1j'atn

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I,r. Cernerrte::, Srrperl_ntendent.'r (Rearllnq) .

Tlto se d:,-o. the c[ar3es that rre are proceerlin:l

on thLs notnirr;i, arrl at this tlr,ne , Telative to
strnnort of Elrose clra::qeg f rvorrld of.f.ar

T,et ne do tt thls t.7arr fLrst. ltr. nenorter,

1f vou rri11, rnarl: those as the Board r s rlxhl-hlt \? ,

(rlhprerrnon, ga{-11 doerrtno.rts
rTere feeel.red nn.l rtafl..e,!
for identlftcatlon as
Ilxhil-rLt llos. 2, 3, 4 arrrt_ 5.

'tn. IInlli): llr. Chairr:ran, and nenhers of the

iloard, llxhibj-t lt?. in a cc::tiflerl coDv of tlre Lnrlict-
ment from the Picl:ens county clrcuit corrrt. rt is
cerEi.f lerl |r'r .Ianes li. Flo'rd, Cl-rcuLE Clerl:, rrnrler

datr: of .Ianttar.r (t, 1O'i2. The oe-r:tl-n.nt Dart of

t',ris r'rotrlrl be, ttTlre c::and .Jrrrrr of- said eount,r c!rarge

that, .!ref ore thc f LnrlLnll of this indtctment, 'la39l-e

S. Rozenan, rltlose nnne to the Gf an,1 .Tur', J-s ottlnl:'rj qa

'tn!'nortn: corrnt one, di-rl rrote nol:e than or)ce r or .r.{-,1

denosit nore than one lraLlot for the sane offi.ce fls

her vote, or rtLd rrotc L1Lega11" or f raurluLentl., i-n

tire r)ernocratir: 1lrlna1.r rrrnoff electj-on of DEcs:ql,or.-

26, 1''f 73, corrnt trro: di-rl vote more t'!rarr once as arr

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bal.lot f ot the same of f lce or of J:tces as her vote 
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orrti(lcastillep.alorfratrrlrl].entabscnteehallots

intlrel)erlocratl.clrrlr,larvruno.Efelecti.onofl]entert.l,e

26, !.q7g\, corrnt tlrree: rli.d cast L11eqa1 or f rarrrlttL^'n

ab sentee balLots in the Denocratie nrlnarv rtrnof f

election of fientenher ?6, 1f'TS, ln tlrat ntte di(l

deposlt'rl-t.lr ttre nl.c!:ens Cotrnt'r .C!.rcrrl.t Cler!,

ahsentce'lra11ol'-nrrl1l4\lrprPg""'1{11fo?rtandtlhl'eh

slie l:nc''r to hc f::arrtlirlent'a'ialnst tlle Deace and

dl,;nit.r of the Statc of AlabanA' tligned P' )1'

.Iohnston, DistrLcE Attornev of the Zl+Eh 'Iudlclal

Ctrcui-t . " (tLeatlLnr,) -r- pler/€ to admlt li:<hl-ltLt n''

vllL mowe to aclmLt lixhllri't 1'

ls nlI of the ni-nutes antl the rrotlf Lcatiorrs

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rvould be a verdi-ct. It cltes tile case

CC-73-I09. It is st'rled a verdl-ct ' Tt

rtlrg, t'1e .Iur.', f intl the Def enrlant gtriltv ns ctlarqerl'

anrlflxlrerotrnislttterrt.^tJ]otrr]'enrsj.ntheneneEen-

tiarv. .Ioe (]. Cool:. " It is cerEti:lert 'lr;r 'lanes

p}6.rd , CLrctrlt Cle::1: oJ: plcl..ens Ccrtrrrt.r ,.rnder tlate o E

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.Ianuary (rEh, IlB2.
rlre rre::t i- te,ir 1s Iixhibit 4 rrh!-ch ls a ca..ie

,\ction Llurrrrarr. rt is it. forn rrsed hv tire court

a ne:, trial . " (Rearling) .

Iixt'rib it [ .

Ilr'.hi-bit 5r i-s a fu::tlre::

Circuit CorrrE $rrster,l. It is

ancl it is lil-.errise cet:tlfie,l

daEe of .Tanuar.r (t, 1982 a!! n

of th.n o::igi na-1-, 'r.!1!-ch i-s in

rearl tJre na::ar;raolr rrrrnhe::ed

sentence.

(Rearlirryl) "T'ire Cotrrt tlrerellor:e atlJ u{13es tlre

I nove to arlmlt exhihl-t 3.

s:rsterl here irr the fltnte of Alahana, antl the form

uoultl shorr nirrrrte ent::tes b.z tlre CircuJ.g.Itrrlge

clatus .Trrrrl:in. .T- DarEieularlv r.rorrJ-d ref e:: '7ou to
tlre r:ri-ntrte ent::.r of ti.l S / ?q , "Tri-aL hv .rrrrrr_\rerrlLef _

r'te the.rrrrrr j]i-n,! tlre rrefen'lnnt.qtrilt'r As ehn::gerl anrt

f i:< lrer nrrnisiurent at four wea::$ in the nenetentlnrv,

s igned .roe cool:, f oreman. Def enclant ad.J url,1e,J p3r.1{}grr

flnrl .qentrlrrcetl to f orr:: rrears irr the Denetenti-ary.
.)eJlendant a1lo'rerl to rcnaln free rrnder trrentv-f i-ve

hurrdrerl doIlar lrond oenrllng fllinn of a notion for

I rroulrl nove to adnrlt

form uti-Ll-zed lr., the

.gt'rlerl a rtlti-nrrte Iin!1rrr',

lry .Tarres F1o'rd under

trrre and corl:ect con',

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ncf errrlanE ,,;rrLLt'r of. J-11ef,a1 rrot{-ng. The r)ef en'lant

arrrl lris nttoliner' hej-n1 rhll-rr Ft'lnRllel-1-e.l , strtottl nnd

char:!eJ lIr tlre lourt j-f he has anvtlr{nq to sa'':r'i1rr

tlte sentenee of larr shotrld not Irn nl:ono''tnCe<l tlDon

lrii,r sn1's rtottr j-n8. Tt is theref ore conside::erl l'y

the Cotr::t anrl 1t Ls the j T rlnlacnt anrl' sentenec of

t'he Corrr:t that tlrj-s J)efendant he fuaorl-sorretl ln tlre

penetentlar1r ojl the fitato of Alabar:a fOr e rrerlod

of forrr yearli as nr.rnishment f or thls crLne in the

*"rlt.i.rt,l fo::rn rrrovtrlerl l'y 14t""" I move to adrntt

Exhilrit 5.

ilq. rrATn: tIorrl<1 any 6F- the Roard rlenlrers ll-i-l''l

to lool: at the e::hib tts ? (Ref err!.nq to rlocu-nents ' )

lll'.. I,IARD: Tlte matter of' the chare'es nertaJ'n

tonotonl'zthecotrvl.ctlon,.lrutothers.Insofaras

char:Ie itl a3 r.ras rearl, pertainLnS tO lre:: con''rletlon

of a felorry offerrse, tlrat rrouLtl constlttrEe the cvLrlerr

rre have at thi.s tlrre. T- rrouLd also l-Ll:e to call

I-,inr.roorl lloLl i-r'tan to Eesti-f ir as to the reFlAini'n3

cltarges tt7o, t'lrree, f our antl f lve '

ilR . IrATn : Do .troll |13rre 4111, othef rrttne S s e s ''o1l

are .4olnn to call?
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llq. r,ATli: Linrroorl, r.roul.l vou
your rl-ght rrarr,t?

Ll:ltt66q tloI LIlIAf.l,
a 'ritnes n of la.rf u.l- f,gp,

examinerl and tes tlf ierl a!;

stand and ::n{-se

lra'ring bean r!trI:r s..?orn, ,,,.i
fol1or.rs:

bell-eve.

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EIAItIitATIOil IIY :IR. IIAP.D:

o l,Iould voll ntate vour na.e, Dlearie, sir?
A Ll.nrroorl IIOL l inan .

a T.Iherc do .r/olt 1l1re, ltr. IIollir,nan?
A Go::do, Plcl:ens Countrr.

a Are vorl errnloyerl?

A rfe.g.

o lllrere are you emnlorred?

A picl:ens (,'ountrr Boa::rl of rlrlrreatton.
O In rrhat caDae !tv?
A As A.ss:1,:tant StrperLntenrlent.

a ilorl long lrave you l.reen ernnloverl as Assistant
Suneri-ntenrlcnt?

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A I rr1Ll have to th!.nl: l.lacl.-.

This is in the f !-f teenth vcar, I
o llave vou sel:vacl then as Assistant
ten<lent the entire J:i.fteen ,rea::s?

/1. Yes.

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O I'Iorrlrl vou brJ-ef1'r descrl-lte c'.'hat vollr drrties

end resDon.ethLlltl-es have heen?

Prilaril.r- I trr rest.)ons.3_lr1e fo:: {-nstrrrCtl-on

ln l--he scltools of. nl-el:ens eotlnt'r, t'7!11-6tr rlenls t'{.lrT

'vlrat is tnrrqll;, 116rr Lt J.s tarrqlrt' and rrlto teaclres i t,

staf f devclorlncnt, insklrvlcc eCucatlon, snd thincs

of this natrlre.

n llitlrin ther;e drrties artrl resDonslhllttl-es rlo

:/ou lra.le tlre oDllotttrnLt.r to rlLserrns ennlorrrlent nntte:"

or errrrLo','ee natters trlth the Drinetnals?

I rlo.

n 1)o -.lotr also have the seme onporttinlt'l to

discuqn ertnlo.ree rratters rritlt va::l-ou't teaehern J.n

tlre srrsten?

I tlo.

I 'rilnt to nst: vot.l rrhether or not, relatl-'rn to

Charge !t2 oll thc elra.rr!es, and I trl-11 reed !.t ar',atn,

"Your failrr::e to follorr thc rrrles of -lo1lr strDervi.sJ.nq

prLnci-pnl re.^,ar:(lLng slilnln3 in at t'!rc hnliLnntnil o1l

Elre nchool .Ja"." Are 'rott farntltar ul-th the 'llasis

o f t'!ri-s clrarle?

Yes, I Am.

IlouLrl r/oq state to Elre 1)9ard, F1e.rse, anrl

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f or the pnl:Dories of the r:eeor,:1, vor.u? f anrillarit-.,

r:ith tirat elra::ge arrtl tlre f;3g'l:.p,rorrnd of !.t?

'le1L, tn eac'lr school teaclrcrs are el(Decterl

Eo slp,n in antl sign otrt on a si-,rin-l.n att'l s{-gn-orrt

slreet tla j-1'2, anrl ;{rri . the nrinclnal of Aliee',rLll-c

lilenenta::.r School had sign-in sheets, Jrrst as all

Elre other schools lrave, atrrl :le-porterl tlrat 'lrs. P,oze:rn

refuser! to sigrr in anrl sl-gn out on the sheet.

o ilave vou. lrad an onnortun!-ty to lrave a corlferene

r'rlEl'r 'l::s. Jiozerran relatLve to that?

t 't'Ie11-, I tallietl rrLth the prinelpal r 'f G!! r an,l

he l:.ad had a conf erence rrLtl.r her. I- never corrfronted

her or tallled rrith lrer clirectlv in relntionshj-n

thls.

All rJ-13'!rt.

ilc tlid. I- dld not,

Is thLs sionething that occurrecl on nore than

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one occasion?

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n All ::13ht. I In going

,i?t, t'Your f ailurr: to sulrrrit

nlarrs to :rour pri-nc j-r,a1. "

r.rith tltat clrart:,e?

to asl: you as to

rqan(latorv rreel:1.,

Do 'rroll have sone

ch a::3 e

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fn'ri- l. i-ar i-

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'lr. '.Lee f etrortr!rl tlrat s'!re r.rorrLd not srrlrnit a lessnrt

nl-an, alrrl ttrat is a reqtti-rer'tcnt ln ttre Ilon::rl nol.i.e"

of tlrr. Iionrrl of lirltreati-on r tl11rl tltat slre f al-l.erl nn

nunerou:l occasi.onn to sttlrnLt 'har Lessotr ntatrs.

o All rlght, si-::, and charse 4, ttYotlr fa.J-1'.t::e

Eo srrlrrnit vollr r:ontinrri.rtr', erltrcation nlntrs to vottr

orLneinal. Rs requj-rerl lry the pollcies of the PJ-cl:ens

Cotrnt'r l)oa::tl of lirltrcation. "

T- have rlirect J-nf ormatLon on that.

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Board ll.esoLution of -1-r)7n Janttarr of. Lq72, anrl

eaclr school rlistrict tlrnt cAIne trndar nrr dLrect

as fl. rli-rect resnonsihi-Ll-t-" to riee that tlri-s J's

carrierl orrt Ln ortr sclrools. tre hatl a nLatr. rt r''1u

a1pf O.,rerl., an,l ilf S. llOZe"tan 'rotr1<1 not COOne1: ate antt

r.roultl not f i11 ouL antl f i1e nlans as \r;ls t]rc renttire-

r'{ents of this iioarrl rerloltttion.

O Dirl voll e\/el1 tlLs crls s this rltth 'trs . 'llozena:r?

A Ycs , s L::. Ilrrr.rerorrs l-etters 1.rere llrltteII to he::

n 1)irl slre ilail to J:o11orr "our <li-rectio:r?

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') Dld sire .l:aiI

than one occasion?

to ilol1or.r vour tllrections on nore

Yesj .

0 All riuht. Relative to chargc 5, "Insuttordinat'

regardlrrg your faiLure to abide hy or follo'.r the

dlrectiong and inst::uctions of vour nrtncioal nntl/or

Elre assistanE sttperi-ntendent rep,arclLng t!re deficleneL,

tlescrlllecl in trara,l:lanhs 2, j arrd 4 sbove." Attrl as

to these tlrree charges, #2,3 and lr, vour familiarltv

rr,ith her failure Eo follov directions r'rouId be i

vogl: personal l:notrle<ll!e r,rOUl{ be as to t/ollr, trt161'1"

she llatlerl Eo fo11o'.r vour dlroctLons rclativc to

contl-nuLrrg educatlon reqrrirenents ?

.1, lilght .

o The other fallure to alrLde b:' rlirections rr2rlld

be frorn l'.norrletlg,cvou have P.alned from the princinaL

of the schooL?

A Ririllg.

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rest.
1ln. I'ATI1: Tlten rle r'rould consJ-der that the

hearLng, !s closcrl. The lloard rrll1 meet to conslder

tl1e evirlence as presenEed ln relation to the charges.

The Boarrl rrllL nalie lts ,rleclsLon and tt "L11 he

renrlered irr f !-rre da.rs Rs required b:, the Statute.

r,le rrLLl stanrl adJotr::ned at this tlme.

(Ili-re::euDo1r the Roard adJourned for dellberatio

for allrrroxlrnately tfiirteen rnLnutes, follor'rln8 rvhLc[

tlre foLlo'rlnB ITas lrad and done:)

itn. I'ATII: Base(l on the \'TritEen charges an'l

the eviderrce presented toclav ln the hcarinq, the

Board lras nade the decLsLon based on t'hLs evLrlence

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ll ;:; ;;;,-;;-dld vote lllegally oi'rr.,rar1enr1v, in the Deoocratle prloarv Run-of f
ll gtectton of SePtenbet 26, 1978'
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ll colNr rlilo
[l rro vote trore than once ea an abaentee voter, or dld depoelt oore than one abeentee

llXiit"l'i"Iii" ea,e offlce of oiir""" ae her-vote, or dld caat lllegal or fraudulent

ll;il;":-i.iiI.", ln the Denocrarlc prloary nun-oif Electlon of septeuber 26, 1978'

illl comrr THREE

llu*o cast l1le'a1 or fraudulent abeentee ballota tn the Derccratlc PrlaatT Ru-off
ll;i"";;;; ;-ilil.'5"r-io, 1978, in that ehe-dld depoalt nlt!,-rhe plckenr countv

ll;i;:;i;"ci"r[ abaentee ballote rhlch were fraudullnt and rhlch rhc kaev to be

:l fraudulent,

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PICKENS OOUilTT.

4rlart thc pcrcc eart dfolty of tbc St t3 o( Atrbean'f'
DlttdctA

t, Jomsr Floyd, cjerk of lhe Circ'ril Crurl for

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Ihe State of Alabama
PICKENS COUNTY

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CIRCUIT COURT

NOVE{BER Term, 19 78

THE STATE

t!.

HA@IE S. BOZEMAN

INDICTMENT

ILLEGAL VOTIIIG
(Sec. L7-2YL)

Prosecutor.

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D.pl. ol Court ilgmt. CASE ACTION SUMMARY

(cRlMlNAL)

Pickens

Cer Numbe(.

78 10.9__
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Circuit CriminalIN THE
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STATE OF ALABAMA Drr ol Birth Dirtinguifi lng Frlturcs:

SSAN

Addrcss l Scx Rrcg lEyas I Hair llhight

BF
Drtc War/Crp. lsrucd Committcd to Jail

lEmployer
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Attdrcsr D.m lnatill Aggournct Rrlcased on Eond

I ....-"a-r no mffi;rty
DrtcArrctrd I llncrrccrrtcd I

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I lon gono I

Bond rdmount Bond Typc & Suratics

1ffirciffi'a-sr.t. oApp.

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I rraudulent or
I irr"gar voting

-p-rccrtor 

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Dt Prslim. Hcrring

Ot. Y.O. Applic. Dt. Probrtion Applic.

Grrnd Jury No.
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Dt. lndictmcnt
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Dt. Arrrignmcnt
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Arrerting Off iccr: tr Municiprl OStrtc
o Counw Oconrnrtion

Dt.Tritl Ot. S.ntlncad

complaintant: 
r, Jomar Flol ftlsf of tlre..::in t::;n,,f1 Dt.AppldFild Bond Amt.

AdditionrllnlormrtionAndI}t*i5ttkoY"ry:^l::';i.or.'.,-t
thc forcgoing to be o truc ar' ". t ;t

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ACTIONS. CASE NOTES

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,'. THE CIRCUIT COURT OF

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li'rL.-: COUNTY, ALABAITA

cAsE NO. ae -2A-LOI

l. This daY came the
arraignment and t
by the Honorable.
the Court finds .

the Honorable

2. Arraignment.

Novr in open
offense of
and the de s

with and of
made a Part

rights as

p teads

charged, the Court now accePts

l, Jome: fte','c" 
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Picktnc Cc 'r' 'l .' 
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tlre forciai "' t:'

lhe originol'

MINUTE ENTRY

open Court in his olrn propgr person and before
i'e ascertalns that the defendant ls represented

?-1, or after examinatlon of defendant'
EHt ana ls ln need of. counsel and appoints

to represent him.

ce of hls attorneY the lndlctment charging the
ls read to the defendant
offense that he ls charged

his
of

's Exhlbit C, whlch ls attached hereto and

GnmEiElfr"a-in open Court, the defendant

3. Guilty Plea.

The defendant novl in open court and ln_the presence of his
iii. Corri-itat ne aesii^es to plead guilty to the offense of

The defendant having made it kno,rn to the court that he desires to plead-guilty' the

Court then inqri..i'oi irte aetenaini-.i io whethei or not he has *:tr:tl::itl :l,litvuul r, ulagll r..Ye I

rights as set out in gourt,s extriuii g, which is attached hereto and is made a part

of the record, tf he has reed thE-rfin'ii,-or had them read to him, and if he under-

stands these rtght;l 
'.il.'court'ii-uii6 i.iolma by t!:.,d:l.i11nl,:h:: li^lit^l?l*3"n

a

ls - 7 daY.qf

attorneY makes it knovtn to

--- to the off

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threatened or abused or offered i.v-i4..re{1ryt/eward to get hlm to plead guilty
and that his plea of suiltv is yryfatD t f/ //-
*:.i:I:lll.tn3lI'l!qiti]i!,-i:l:Tl$.tln:.ii}Ili}t,l''.

above defendant ln
Court then and

tJudge Presloln9.



ExntolL A tconElnueo/

4. Defendant heret having been lndicted and arralgned upon an lndlctment on a charge

of e
eupon

ilcffi acc*a]ns
to ]aw, before whom the trial of this cause was upon a contlnued from day to

, being in
ings ln CaUSe, notJ On

day i..l from time to tlme, sald Defendantr.-
opln c,,;;r. l- Et ea,ph and everY,;stpge ,and 'lurlng.aoDen L,.,,1 i- ot earn ano
t'his ti,c ]4!aaY of l9

nls
upon

')rvon, _tu2__

5. Judgment and Sentence.

The Court therefore adJudges the Defendant guilty of. $cSf / 2'..' iE. TIe Sefendant and hls ittor-ney bEingl imlt empanelled( sworn and

@tifhehasanyth!n9t9.say.vrhythesentenceoflawshouldnotbe
Dronounced urron nir-t.vt noitrine.: It is ttrerLfore consldered lrV t1e Court and it is
'd; jru;.n['-ina'i.ni.-nie of th6 Court that thls .Defendant b,glryrlsoned_t1,ll:
i.ntienliary of tne itate of Alitaoa for a perlod of 3 9za.as punlshment for
iits crine in ths manner anr-! fom provlded by lavt. .r

6. Defendant
that he be
prouati on

pakes appllcatlon for

7. Further Orders of the Court.

1 i. After due consideratlon' lt is 0rdered t
concurrent wiht the sentence ln Case No'

b. Defendant's Motlon for a New Trlal ls hereby

c. Defendant glves notlce of appeal and hls bond ls set at

d. Defendant to receive months daYs Jail credit.

Prohatlon- and, at hls reouest, lt ls ordeyed and ad.iudged

uono,-ii unoei bond, pendlng probatlon hearlng and thatcontinued under'same
hearing be set for-

After due consideration, probation is . This sentence ls suspended

indtheDefendantisplacbdonprobationToraperlodo|.-{:1rs.
Defendant is ordered to serve mohths ln th@h his
;i;il.itlsorie'ea-initE@batlonfo-r-aper|odof

-^-r{-rar af h{c ean}an."e 
'1lit[cl Fote; tlcffi lor

years as to the remainder of hls sentence. l, lqmcl

drc ioregolng to Le o irt I ' ' r '' cr;' ' i'[
thc originol. ,S

that tJre settorres &rV tbilc Gi5&Sel,5g;vsd h --' r ,



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RNY X. ,ANXAT

a0Da.lnla,xb{rl

JACX ?. ?AIE
,r.aldant

PIGf,ENS COI,'NTY EOARD OF EDUGATION
o,llo.c,i.lrF mr!d.l|l

?o.!dta ?lu.Itat€
oalrou.rox. ILA!A}|  o..'

January 8, 1982

l{ra. Maggle S. Doceosn
Poat Offlce Drawer T
Allcevllle, Alabana 35442

Dear Mra. Bozeoan:

Thls ls to advlee you that the Plckens County
Board of Educatlon uet followlng your hearlng and
unanlnougly voted to cancel your cootract of euploy-
uent wl.th the Ptckena Cor.urty Boerd of Educatlon.
fhe Board found that the evldence EuPPorted the
chargee aa outllned ln Superlntendent Carpenterte
letter to you of Noveuber 6, L979.

Irii.. ol lL aorr6

rl.Y. ?Ai( Atlcrvlllr
.r IL O. XOllxO, C.rolllon
Itr. XAXCY rAln, Ooll,o
IOYD lDOEWORllt. A.lorm

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{ "M)'I-k
Superlntendent of Educatl.on

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MAGGIE S. BOZEMAN

Petitioner
vs.

EALON U. LAMBERT; et aI

ResPondcntE

rN THE lrlNrTED STATES DISTFCT Col',Rr
itin'rft-i'iiools DrsrRrcr 0F ALABA)'A

NORTHERN DIVISION

EILED
APR 1 g l9B4

THOMAS C. CAVER, CLERT.

DEPUTY CLERX

crvrl, ACTToN N0. 83-H-579-N

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JI'DGMENT

Pursuant to the ettached rnemorandr:o opinion, it ls

hereby

oRDEREDthatpetitioner'sgotionforsullrDary
juogoent is granted.

ItistheoRDER,JuDG}tE}iT,andDECREEoftheCourt

that the Judgaent of conviction and the sentence pronor:nced

thereon by the Circuit Court of Pickens Cor:rrty, A1ab.ama,

onNoveuber2:-,lgSO,whereinMaggieS'Dozeoanuasfor:nd

guiltylnstatecriuinalcase{icc-78.1o9offraudulentor
illegalvotingandsentencedtofouryears.luprisonDeni'
is hereby vacated. It is further oRDERED that respondents

releasepetitionerfropallrestraintsiurposedasaresult
of said conviction not later than April 30' 1986'

Itisfurt,heroRDEREDthatthecostsofthisPro.
ceeding be taxed against the State of Alabaaa'

/i(.u,ii(1,- Tu
T'NITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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IN THE I'NITED STATES DISTRICT COI'RT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF AIABAilA

NORTHERN DIVISION

MAGGIE S. BOZEMAN

Petitioner

vs. ) crvll, AcrroN N0. 83-H-579-N

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EALON !'1. LAIIBERT; et aI )

Responderlts

JI'LIA P. IJ"ILDER ) .

PetitLoner )

vs. ' ) CIIIIL ACTION NO' 83-H-580-N

EALON M' IAMBERT; et al )

Respondents )

UEUORANDUI'I OPINION

This cause is before the Court on petitioners' motions

for summary judgrment. Although the court has not

consolidated these cases, it will issue a joint opinion,

with separate judgments. Bozeman in her.mc-.ion argues that'

under Jackson v. virqinia, 443 U.S. 30? (19?9), the evicence

Lras insufficient to support her conviction. she also

contends that she uas depriveC of her constitutional right

to notice of the charges against her. !{ilder raises only

the latter cleim in her motion. she raises the {ackson

claim in her petition, however, and the court thus will

consider it now. For the reasons statei be10w, the court

FILED
APR 1g 1984

THOMAS C. CAVER, CLEH(

DEruTY CLERK

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finds for both

Bozeman on her

petitioners on their notice claims and for

Jackson clairn.

FACTS

Both petitioners were convicted uncer a statute

proscribing voting more than once or voting when one is not

entitled to do sor in connection with their participation in

the casting of absentee ba1lots in the Democratic primary

runoff.on September 26, 19?8 in Pickens County' The

contention of the prosecution rlras, esseDtially, that

petitioners procured absentee baLlots in the names of

registered voters and voted the ballots themselves'

Specifically, the Prosecution eontended that petitioDers

would take applications for absentee ballots around to

elderly blacks and ask them if they wanted to be able to

vote without going to the pol1s. Most of these elderly

peopLe htere illiterate, so petitioners ordinarily would heJ'p

them fill it out, and the voter would make an fixrt mark'

Sometimes the application would di.rect that the ba1lot be

mailed to the voter and sometimes to one of three addresses'

Wilder's addreSs waS among the three; Bozeman's was not.

Either petitioners or the voter would turn the applications

for an absentee ba]}ot in to the Pickens county clerk's

office. According to the Prosecution, Petitioners obtained

thirty-nine of these baLlots, filled them out, and signed

the registered voters' names to them. wilcer and Bozeman

took the ba]lots to a notary public, who notarized then uPon

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petitioners' assurance that the signatures v'ere valid' The

ballots h,ere subseguentlY voted'

Whenacourtc}erknoticedthatal]oftheabsentee
baLlot applications turned in by !{ilder had one of three

addresses on them, she notified her superior, who contacted

the District Attorney. The District Attorney had the box

containing the absentee ballots inspectei, and it was

discovered that thirty-nine ballots had been notarized by

PauJ Rollins, a notary in Tuscaloosa. 111 thirty-nine

bal.lots were voted identically, and nens wBS signed with an

"x," eveD though many of the corresPonding applications

were.SomeofthecorresPondingapplicationshadoneofthe
three addresses on them, and some did not. I'tilder witnessed

solne of the applica"ions that were signed with an "x";

Bozer,,an Cid not witness any'

I. EX/IDENCE OF WILDER'S GUILT

The Court has thorough)'y reviewed the record of

HiLderrs trial.. Given that the Alabama court of criminal'

Appeals set out the testirnony at htilder's trlal in its

oPinion,andgiventhatthisCourtfincsthattheevidence
c1ear1ywassufficientunder@toconvictt{i1der,
thereisnoneedforthisCour*'togtobeyondtheCourtof
Criminal APPealsr review of the evidence'

II. EVIDE

TheCourtwi].ldetailthetestimonyatBozeman'strial.
?her^'itneSsesincludednineeloerll'b}ackswhosevotes$ere

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amongthoseremovedfromthebox.Notoneoftheelderly
voters testified ttrat Bozeman ever came to see him or her

aboutvotinginconnectionwiththerunoff.}tostoftheir
testimony concetned wilder's activities. Also, none of the

voters had any knowledge of Paul Rollins, the notary public

who notarized their ballots'

JaniceTilley,the'courtclerk,testifiedthatBozeman
cameinseveraltimestopickupapplicationsforabsentee
ballots.Thiswasentirelylega}.Shealsostatedthatone
time, just prior to the runoff' Bozeman and l{ilder came

togetherinacar,althoughonlyl^.ildercameintothe
office. Upon objections by defense counsel, however, the

trial judge struck most of this testimony, inc}uding all

referencestol,tilder.Theonlytestimonythatwasnot
strickenwasthatBozemanwasinacaraloneandcicnot
corne inside.

TheStE-r-€a}soPresentecevicencepertainingtothe

openingoftheballotboxanitheremcvalofthirty-nine
ballots notarized by Paul' Rollins'

PaulRol}instestifiedthathenotarizedsomeballots
for the runoff election in Tuscaloosa' He stated that

Wilder, Bozeman, and two or three other lacies brought tbe

ballots.HerefusedtosaythatBozemanherselfaskedhim
to notarize the ballots' testifying insteai that the grouP

did,andthatthegrouPrePresentedthatthesignaturesi,ere
genuineafterhetoldthemthatthesiEnatorsweresupposed
tobepresent.Iiealsostatedthathereceir,ecth'ocal]'sto
setupthemeeting,butthathecouldnotrememberwhether

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Bozeman made either caII. He I'ater teStified, however' that

Bozeman made one caLl pertaining to some bal'lots' but he was

not sure which ballots. Finally, he testified that he went

to Pickens county to notarize a second set of ballots' and

that he believed this occurred at the general election'

Maudine Latharn testified that she signed an application

that was brought to her by clemmie Grice and his wife' but

that she was not told what it was. she stated that she

never saw a balLot, ot Bozeman

Annie Billups testified that trilder made an"x" on her

aPPlication,andalsofilledoutherballotwithher
consent- She was unsure whether l{ilder read the names'

although she stated that llilder told her who the blacks l'ere

f',.votingfor.BozemanwasnotPresentateitheroftheset,
times.

MattieGipsontestifiedthatshemadeanllxltonan
aPPlicationthath'ilderbrouEhther,butthatshenevergot
aba]Iot.Shethentestified,however,thatl"linnieHill
broughtherabal}ot,andthatsheputhermarkonit.Her
balIo.'bearsnomark.ShealsostatedthatWilderatsome
pointshowedherasampleballotincicatingforwhomthe
blacksL,erevoting.ShestatedthatBozemanhadno
connection to any of these events'

NatDanceytestifiedthathedidnotrememberanything
abouteithertheapp}icationortheballot.Hestatedthat
hecouldnothavesignedtheballotbecausehecouJdnot

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hrrite. He denied ever telling Bozeman any'thing about

voting.

JanieRicheytestifiedthatshe,,sometimes,.writesher
name and that she did not remember making the 'rxn that

aPPearsonherapplication,althoughsheremembered}lilder
bringingtheapp}icationtoher.shetestifiedfirstthata
baLlot came in the tnail; and then that "they brought" one to

her.TheProsecutorreadhernotesofaninterviewinwhich
she denied ever getting a baIIot, but she still maintained

ontheStandthatshereceivedaballot.Thenotesh,erenot.
admitted into evidence. on cross-examination' she testified

thatl{i].dertoldherwhotheblacksh,erevotingfor,and
that l^lilder marked her ballot with her consent' she stated

that she never spoke with Bozeman about voti'ng '

Fronnie Rice testified that she filled out and signed

bothherappl.icationandherballot.Shestucktothisstory
whentheProsecutorreadtoherfromadepositioninwhich
sheoeniedeverreceivingaballot.Herapplicationhadher
o!,naddressonit.Shea]'sotestifiedthatBozemanhad
ncthinE to do with her voting activities'

LouSommervi]letestifiedthatshewasunsurewhether

shehadfilledoutanapplication.Hertestimonyastoher
balIot was simply incomprehensible' After -the 

juige

declaredherahosti}ewitness,theProsecutionreadtoher
fro;nadepositioninwhichshestatedtha.'Bozemanhelped
herfi}loutanapplication.Shestatedinthedeposition
tha-' she never saw Bozeman after she fillec ou-' the

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application, although she also stated that Bozeman may have

filled in her ballot and that she never signed the ballot.

Her application bears her own address. On the stand, she

testified that Bozeman had never signed anything for her.

She also denied ever having named Bozeman at the deposition'

In fact, she denied ever giving a deposition. The deposition

was not admitted into evi'dence '

sophia spann testified that she did not sign an

application or a ballot. She also stated that when she went

to her usual polling place, She was told that her absentee

ballot had been cast. She stated that Bozeman came at some

time prior to the runoff and asked if Spann wanted to vote

absentee, and Spann said she did not' JuLia liilder

witnessei, SPann' s aPPlication'

Lucille Harris testified that she signei an applica-"ion

that h,ilder brought to her. She further testified that she

never signed or received a ballot, a).though her own adcress

appeared on the aPPlication. she statec tha'. tsozenan hac

nothing to do with her voting activities '

DISCUSSION

I. Suf f iciency of the Erridence

Both Petitioners assert that

trials was insufficient to support

ihe rneaning of Jackson v ' Virginia

the evidence at their

their convictions within

, 113 U.S. 307 (19'i9). rn

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Jackson, the supreme court held that habeas corPus relief is

available where the evidence at trial is such that, viewed

in a light most favorable to the prosecution, no "rational

trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the

crime beyond a reasonable doubt.." Ic. 319. The court

explicitly rejected a standard under which only a showing of

"no evidence" of guilt would establish a due Process

violation. Id. at 32Oi see ThomPson v. Lousiville, 352 U'S'

199 (1950). ThuS, a mere "mOdiCum" Of evidence is

insufficient. 443 U.S. at 320.

In appLying the Jackson standard, eourts first examine

state law to determine the elements of the crime' Duncan v'

stynchcombe, 704 F.2d 12]3, 1214-15 (llth Cir. 1983);

Hclloway v. McElroy, 632 F.2d 505, 640 (5th cir. 1980) ,

cert. @, 451 U.S. 1028 (1981). In determining whether

the evidence established those elernents, the court may not

resolve issues of credibility. Duncan, 104 F.2d at 1215'

Thus, where the evidence conf llcts the cour-' must pr€SE:rr€

that the jury accePted the Prosecution's version, and must

defer to that result- 443 U'S' at 326'

petitioners v,ere convictei of violating s 17-23-1.

That section provides that " [a]ny person who votes more than

once at any election held in this state, o! deposits more

than one ba]10t for the same office as his vote at such

eLection, or knowingly attemPts to vote when he is not

entitled to do sor or is guilty of any kind of i11e9a1 or

fraucuLent voting" is guilty of a crime. under Alabama case

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1aw, ,,the words I illegal or fraudul.ent' .. .are. . .descriptive

of the intent necessary for the commission of the offense"'

Vtilder v. state, 401 So.2d 151, 159 (AIa.Cr.App. ) , cert.

genied, 401 So.2d 15? (1981). "The offense denounced by the

statute...is voting more than once," wilson v. state,52

Ala. 29g, 303 (1875), or voting u'hen the voter is not

entitled to do so. Wilder, 401 So.2d at 160'

A. lri lder

The evidence h,as sufficient for a rational jury to find

h,iLder guilty. A significant amount of evidence indicated

that bal.l0ts were cast in the names of people who denied

casting them, and sufficient evidence linked I'1iIder to those

baIlots. Wilder picked uP numerous applications, she took

them to the Persons whose votes h'ere purportecly "stolen"'

she had access to many of the balLots, and she was in the

group that took them to Rollins to be notarized' A jury

could reasonably find beyond a reasonabLe doubt that llilder

musrt- have filled in the ballots herself and cast them with

the j.ntent of voting more than once '

?. Boze:-uan

Bozeman,scaseisguitecifferent.Theonlyevi6ence
againstBozemanwasRollins'testimonythatshewasoneof
the Lacies who brought the ballots to be notarized' that she

mayhaveca].ledtoarrangetherreeting,andthattheladies
as a grouP rePresented lh" baLlots to be genuine after he

told them that the signators were supposec to be present'

Tjreonlyotherpossibleiniicationsofguilth'ereeither

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strickenorwereruledinadmissible.Allofthecourt
c].erk,stestimonytendingtoshowthatBozemancamewith
l{ildertodepositthebal}otswasstricken,andLou
sommerviJLe, s deposition was never placed in evidence and

would not have been admissible as substantive evidence

an)^ra)r.

Althoughthereh,asconvincingevidencetoshowthatthe

bal]'ots},ereillegallycast,thereuasnoevidenceofintent
onBozeman,sPartandnoevidencethatsheforgedorhelped
toforgetheballots.Thereisnoevidencethat.shetook
aPplicationstoanyofthevoters,orthatshehelpedanyof
thevotersfilloutanapplicationorballot,o!thatshe
returnedanapplicationorba]']'otforanyofthevoters,and
noba].Iotr^,asmai]edtoherresidence.Thus,therer^tasDo
er,icence that Bozeman rea]'ized when she accomPanied Wi}der

andotherstotheofficeofRo]].irsthattheballotstha.'
she heIpeC to get notarized h'ere frauduLent'

This case is somewhat analogous to the cases holcing

that " lmi ere Presence in an area where un]awful drugs are

discoveredisinsufficienttosupportaconvictionfordrug

PcSSession.,,UnitedStatesv.Rackley,No.S2-5020,s}iP
oP.at].602(I}thCir.Feb.13,1981)(citingUnitedStates
v. Roias,531 r'2d 216' 220 (5th Cir' 1975)' gert denied'

42g U. S' 1O6L (19??))' The standard in such cases is

simil'artothatinJackson'UnitedStatesv'sanders'639
F.2d 268, 270 (5th Cir' I98]) (where "reasonable Persons

mightfindtheevidenceinconsis-.ent$itheveryreasonable

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hypothesis of innocence,,). The only distinction between

this case and BgLJg is that there was evidence that

Bozeman had at least constructive possession of the ballots '

Constructive Possession of narcotics will support a

conviction.Rackley,SliPoP.at1502;UnitedStatesv.
Hernandez, 484 F.2d 85, 8? (5th Cir' 1973)' This

distinction is not decisive, however' It should be plain to

anybody possessing cocaine that the substance is iIIegaI '

but it would not necessariry be so with forged ba110ts.

Thus, the inference that Bozeman intentional'Iy look Part in

forgingtheballotscannotbedrawnfromherconstructive
possessionofthemwhenshewasatthenotary'sofficein
the comPany of Wilder and others'

Respondents,relianceonaidingandabe-'-'inga].sois

not justified. They asserteC at oral argument that the

er,idenceshowedhli].dertobeguiltyandBoze:.'antohave
aiied her. Even under thE'' theory, however ' there still

hTas no evidence of intent' There $'as no evj'ience to negate

theinferencethatBozemanwasjustgoingalongwithwhat
she beLieved to be an innocent effort to have absentee

ballotscast.Theevidencecidnotshor^,.Boze:-..antohave
p].ayedanyro]eintheProcessofordering,collecting,or
filling out the ballots. The record also lacks any evidence

ofanycontactbetweenBozemanandh..i].derexceptatthe
notary ' s. Thus, there is no evidence to inCicate that

Bozeman knew the ballots to be fraudulent'

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petitioners claim that the indictments were

constitutionally defective in that they failed to provide

the notice reguired by the Sixth Amendment' The indictments'

which were identical, charged that each Petitioner--
COUNT ONE

did vote more than once, o! Cid deposit
morethanone.ballotforthesameoffice
as her voter ol did vote il1ega)'Iy or
fraudulently, in the Denocratic Primary
Run-off pleltion of September 26 ' 1918 '

COUNT TWO

did vote more than once as an absentee
voterr or did dePosit more than one
arieniee ballot for the same office
or offices as her vote, or did cast
i3'lega1 or fraudulent absentee ba]lots'
in tf,e Dernocratic Primary Run-off
Election of SePtember 26, ]978'

COUNT THREE

did cast illega1 or fraudulent absentee
ballots in th' Democratic Primary Run-
oti ELection of SePtember 26 ' 1978 

'i"-tr.,ii she did deposit wi-,h the Pickens
County Circuit CLerk, absentee ballots
wnicfr'were f raudulent and which she knew
to be fraudulent'

petitioners raise three challenges to the indictrnent' They

contendLhatthetrialjudgeinstructeithejurieson
several statutes not contained in the indictmen-'' thus

allowing the juries to convict Petitioners on charges of

which they had no notice. Petitioners also contenc that the

indictments were constitutionalry defective because the

factual allegations uere insufficient anc because necessarl'

e1ements of the crime v'ere ornitted'

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A.HabeasReviewof.Cha]'lengestolndictnents

As an initial matter, the Court rejects

respondents' argument that habeas petitioners may not

challenge the sufficiency of a state indictment' Respondents

rely on cases in which petitioners chal'lenged the

sufficiencyofindictm.entsunderstatelaw.lohnsonv.
Estelle, lO4 F.2d 232,236 (5tn Cir' 1983); Cramer v'

}@,683F-2d13?6,1381-82(?thCir'1982)'cert'
denied, U-S.- (1983); DeBenedictis v' VJainwriqht ' 614

F.2d841,813(llthCir'1982);Branchrr'Estelle'531f'2d
t22g,1233(5thCir.1980).hlhereanindictmentabridgesa
constitutionaL guBtaDt€€ r habeas is available. @, 583

F.2d at 1381.; cf . Hance v. Zant, 595 P'2d 940' 953 (I]th

Cir. 1,983) ; ltashincton v' vtatkins ' 655 P' 2d 1345 ' 1369 (5th

Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 436 U'S' 949 (1982)' Furthermore'

in PLunkett v. Estelle, 109 P'2d 1OO4 (5th Cir' 1983)' the

courtconsideredacJaimthatthejurychargealloweda
convictiono!'acrimenotcharged,id.at].oo9,ac].aim
petitioners raise here. Thus, petitioners here ma1' challenge

theindictmentsinsofarastheircha)'lengeconstitutesan
attack uPon the notice provided by the indictments'

B,

TheCourtrejectsrespondents'contentionthat,because
petitioners failed to object to the jury instructions ' the]'

waivedanyobjectiontotheinclusionthereinofoffenses
not charged i.n the indictrnents' See Hainwricht v'

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433 U.S. 72 (1977); Brazell v' State ' 423 So'2d 323' 326

(AIa.Cr.App. 1982). First, wilder's attorneys did object to

the inclusion of the statutes on perjury and notarization.

Second, the Court believes that petitioners' claim is a

chal].enge to the lack of notice and not to the jury charges '

Had the indictments charged the offenses included in the

instructions, the latter would harre been unobjectionable'

The rif th circuit, in Plunkett rr. Estelle , 109 F'2d l'004'

1OOB (5th Cir. 1984), rejected a construction similar to the

onerespondentsurgehere.Furthermore,theAlabamacourts

considertherighttonoticeassofundanrentalthat
objectionstotheJackofnoticecannotbewaived.E.g.,
Barbee v. State, 4!7 So'2d 61f' 613 (AIa'Cr'App'L982);

ECwarCs v. State, 319 So'2d 336' 338 (ALa'Cr'App'1979);

cert. denied, 379 So'2d 339 (1980)' The Court does not

believetheAlabamacourtsuouldbarpetitionersfrom
assertj.ng this issue on "pp."rl/ 

Thus, the cour" holds that

petitioners have not waiveC this cl-ain

Petitionersarguethatthetrialcourt'sjury
instructionsallowedthemtobefounigui}tl,ofchargesuPon
which the), were t1o" indicted ' The iniictnents charged

petitioners with voting more than once or voting

.,fraudu1entlyori3.legaIly"olcasting.'fraudulentor

l.IheAlabaDacorrts\,ouldnot,h@'ever,cc,nsia"ithisclairrcnrcollate=al
rev1"'*,, 4d thr:s it presen-Ls ;; "re;*iio. 

ptlii;'- -;; rhe Corgc stated in its

orderds,yine';dfd;;J;;i;;-dit"iti,--t'ni=-:l1E-'.,::$#ffir.lirrt
:![#*]*il"rg'ffi*: I-f i*;'l*?'f:il:'"ocice 

m *cea''

although *,ey'Ii'E "orraise 
fr;;*afic iss'r thev raise here'

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iI1egal" ballots. The trial court defined "iIIegal" by

instructing the jury on four statutes not contained in the

indictment. The triaL judge first explained Ala' Code S

17-10-3, which describes what Persons are eligible to vote

absentee. He then read AIa. code s 1?-10-5, which requires

that absentee ballots be strorn tO before a notary public,

with certain excePtions. The judge then instructed the

juries on Ala. Code s 17-10-1, which provides that absentee

voters must apPear Personally before the notary' Finally'

the judge charged the jury that, under Ala. code s 13-5-115'

anypersonwhofalselyandcorruPtlymakesaswornstatement
in connection with an eLection is guilty of perjury'

petitioners argue that the instructions allowed them to be

convicteC of any violations of these statutes'

Asageneralru].e,aconvictionbaseduPonachargenot
con-.BiD€d in the indictment rriolates cue Process' Jackson

r,. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307, 314 (1979) ("It is axion'atic

t!.:a-- a conrriction upon a cha.rge not made or a charge no-''

tried consti,,utes a denial. of due process"'); cole v'

Arkansas, 333 U.S. f96, 201 (1948) (l'It is as much a

violationofdueProcesstosendanaccuseitoprison
fol).owingconvictionofachargeonwhichhewasnevertriec
asitwouldbetoconvicthimuponachargethatwasnever
made."); DeJonqe v. Oregon, 299 U'S' 353' 362 (1937)

('.ConrlictionuPonachargenotmadewoulcbesheerdenia].

dueprocess.");seeDunnv'UnitedStates'442U'S'100'
(1979 ) . Purthermore, ED indictnent mus+- a11e9e every

of

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essential element Of the violation charged therein. Hamlino

v. united states , 4!8 U.S. 81 , 11? (1974); Russel'l' v' united

re, 369 u-s. 74g, 771 (1962); united states v' ou '

559 F.2d 1305, 1310 (5th Cir. Unit B 1981), cert. denied,

455U.S.950(1982);UnitedStatesv.Varkonyi,645P.2d
453, 455 (5th Cir. 1981) '

TheEigh.'hCircuithasupheldaclaimsimilarto
petitioners,. In Goodloe v. Parratt, 605 F.2d 1041 (8th Cir'

1979), Petitioner was charged with ''unla*fu}ly oPeratIing] a

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motor vehicle to fLee in such vehicle in an effort to avoid

arrestforviolatinganylawofthisState.''TheState
originallyclaimedattrialthatPetitionerhadfledto
arroid arrest f or driving with a suspended license ' a3'chough

he had earJier been acguitted, of that charge. The trial

court ruled, however, that the State had to show an actual

violation, so the State altered its contentions to reckless

criving.Id.atlo44-45.TheEighthCircuitru]'edthat,
"[o]ncepriorviolationofaspecificstatutebecamean
elementoftheoffensebyvirtueofthetrialcourtruling,
Goodloe was entitled not only 'uo llotic€ of tha-' general

fact,butal'sotospecificnoticeofr^'hatlar^'hewasalleged
to have violated"' I! at 1045' lhe information under

whichPetitioner!,aschargecthus''failedtoadequately
describetheoffensechargedbecauseitdidnotal3.egean
essential substantive eLement'" I1|' at 1045' The court

went on to note that ' if petitioner had haC actual notice of

the S-'aters contentions ' due Process would har;e been met

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despite the inadequacy of the information. The arrest

warrant had notified petitioner of the suspended license

charge, but the State's switch in tactics deprived him of

due Process. Id. ; 3ccord, t|atson v. Jago, 558 F.2d 330 (6th

Cir. l,g77).

The Fifth circuit recently has followed the basic

approachofWatsonand@'InPlunkett'thePifth
circuit found a constitutional violation where petitioner

iras charged with intentionally causing t death, and the

tria] court added to its instructions a charge on causing

death by an act intended to cause serious bodily injury'

The trial court, in summing uP its statenents of abstract

1aw by appJ.ying the Iaw to the facts of the case, used only

the }anguage of the correct statute. 709 F.2d at 1007' The

Fifth Circuit reasoned that the charge mus-u be considered in

lightoftheentiretrial,andexaminedthePrcsecutor.s
closing argument as well as the charge ' The court found

that the prosecutor tolC the jury that peti-'icner could be

found guilty under the non-charged definition of murcer'

Ic.atloo8-og.Thecourtfoundthat,gir,entheer'idence
and theories presented by the parties, the jury could have

concludedthatPetitionerintendedtoinjurebutnotxill
thevictim,andthusthejurycouldhaveconrlictedhimof
the non-charged offense. Il "t 1010-11; accord, TarPley 1,.

Estelle , 103 F.2d 151, 159-51 (5th cir' 1983) '

To summarize, the correct approach is to determine

whetherthejurycou].dreasonab}yhaveconvicteoeither

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petitioner of a crime not charged in the indictment. The

determination requires an examination of the trial as a

whol.e, including the charge, the arguments and theories of

the parties, and the evidence. The case law further makes

clear that the fact that there may have been sufficient

evidence to convict on the crime that was charged is not

sufficient to sustain the conviction'

Respondents argue that the jury instructions did not

aJl0w Wilder tO be convicted under the non-charged statutes.

They point to pages 311 and 312 of the transcript, at which

the court instructed in essence that the state was charging

wil.der with voting more than once, anc with marking the

absentee baI10ts without the voters' consent' The court

concluded that, "Such a ballot wouLd be i1]'egal to cast a

ballot Isic] or participate in the schene to cast that

ballot with knowledae of these facts and wouli faIl within

the acrs prohibited by section 17-3-L lsicl of the Alabama

code of 1975." ThuS, resPondents concl,uoe, I{ilcer must have

been convictec of vio].ating the s'{-atute uncer which she uas

charged

Respondents' argument is patently wrong ' Responien-'s

ignoretheparagraphimmediatelyfo).lowingtheonequoted

above:

Purther, the State charges that the defendant
witnessed or had knowledge that a Notary
Public falsely notarized or attestei to the
authenti;i.t-;f rhe bal.Lots 5-v attesting "le
Persons U.fltt him and so forth as provided
in the alii'aavit' rf the ballot was falsely
attesteo to, then such a baiiot.wouii be

illega1 and any Person who participated in

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a scheme to cast that ballot with knowledge
of that fact would commit the acts prohibited
by Section 17-3-1 [sic] of the Alabama Code
of 19?5 if in fact that balJot was cast'

Tr. 312. Thus, the court's charge explicitly permitted the

jury to convict I{ilder with casting an improperly notarized

balIot, a crime with which she was not charged. l{ilder went

into court expecting to face a charge that she voted more

than oDce, and yet the jury was told that it was enough for

the prosecution to show the ballots rrere improperly

notari zed, even if they h'ere otherwise valid'

The evidence in the case was such that the jury could

harre convicted l,rilder on the charge of which she had no

notice. l,lilder testif ied that the voters either f i1led out

their or^-n balLots or authorized her to fill them out' Thus'

if the jury believed wilder, it coulc have found that l{ilder

did not cast two or more ba110ts as her own vcte but that

she did, cast improperly notarized ballOts, and hence was

guilty under the courtrs charge'

BozemanhasasliEhtlystrongercla:rnon--hisissue
than wilder. The triaL court d1d not. sum.narize the stateis

contentions as it did in blilder's case ' It simply

ins-'ructed the ju=y, ?s in h*ifcer's case' that

,,i11ega1...means an act that is not authorizec b-v law or is

contrary to the lawr" tr. 2OL, ani 
"hen 

chargei on the four

statutes not contained in the indictment. As in wilder's

case, ihis wouli Lead a reasonable juror to belierte tha"

Bozeman could be convieted of casting in'-oroperl'v notarizei

ba1lots. This would have especially prejudiced Bozernan

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because the only evidence against her \^'as her particiPation

in the notarization.

The court does not by its holding indicate that any

unfairness resulted from the Prosecution's use of the

evidence of improper notarization to show that peti'-ioners

voted more than once. That evidence was relevant to that

issue, al.though it was insufficient to show intent on

Bozeman'S part. But the indictments, by charging

petitioners with "illegaI votiDgr" Created substantial

potential for abuse, potentia]' which was realized by the

jury instructions. A ballot could have innumerable defec-'s

causing it to be "i11e9a1. " FetitiOners were entitlei to

know exactly what defects the ballots a11e9ed1y containec so

thattheycouldPreParetheirdefenses.Asitturnedout,
the1, cid not discover the precise charges they r^''ere facing

untiJ. they had rested their cases. The prosecution, oD the

cther hand, had the oPPortunity to change the rufes right uP

until. the case went to the jury ' As the ccrrrt stated rn

Plunkett, ,It is not a sporting theorl' of justice we

describe. " 709 F.2d at 1010 '

The result of the trial court's in"erPre-'ation of the

word ,,i).J.eEa1,' in s 17-23-1 was that petitioners went in-'o

court facing charges that they hag "stoien" votes and encei

upbeingtriedonthealternat'ivetheorythattheyhad

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comnitted one or more statutory rtrongs in the notarization

of the uatrots.3/ There is a world of difference between

forgingaperson'sballotandfailingtofollowtheproper
procedureingettingthatperson'sballotnotarized.If
petitioners u,ere facing the latter charge, they had a right

to be to1d. They h'ere not' To put it simPly' petitioners

were tried upon charges that were Dever maoe and of which

they were never notifiec. Thus, their convictions cannot

stand.

2,AnotherSoulceofgotentj,a].P:.ejudicetoPetitioners
L,as the confll,;;i;t-r"yt in w'i:.cfr che Aiablaa courts have

lnterprered ti,"-t"i, ilirr"-["i.t- 
+:"orcing. ro .1"_court of

Ciiriinl Appeals, it_siu;Ii describes the intent nece.ssary
to a violari;;-;i S-f i:1'S-i,-r.'iiE"t, 401 So.2d at 150 ' The

trial court, houever, Eave if,ffi a life of its o\t'rl' TlraC

court charged the juries if't.i-"ii1eE,a1. ..Eeans an act that
is not authorri"E 6i-i"* or is con::a=,' :o.the-_1"y-:" Tnus 

'

as petitioners point.out,-"ff 1e"9 per-Laining to voting
becane incorp-rited into S 17-23-l'.' Und'er the interpre-
racion of the courE of criminal Appea3.s,^r,hi.s r;ould be

incorrect, and iurproper "ot.i:zaiibn 
would not be a crioe

r:rrder s 17 -Zi-t.- 'i;'r the ;;i;I-;;lrrt'r instructions roade it
one.

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indictments failed adeguately to notify them of the charge

that they voted more than once. "The validity of an

incictment is determined from reacing the indictment as a

whoIe,...and...must be determined by practical' not

technical, considerations.'' United Staies v' Markham' 537

P.2d 18?, :r,g2 (sth Cir. 19?6), cert. denied, 429 U.s. 1041

11977) t see united states v. outler, 659 F'2d 1306' 1310-l'1

(5th Cir. Unit B 1981), cert denied' 455 U'S' 950 (1982);

United states v- Uni Oil, Inc' , 646 F'2d 916' 954 (sth Cir'

1981), cert. denied, 455 U'S' 908 (1982); United States v'

Decidue, 603 F.2d 535, 545 (5th Cir' 1979) ' cert' denied'

445U.S.945,446U.s.912(1980);UnitecStatesv.Clark,
546r.2c1130,1132(5thCir.lgi7).T\.'oofthecounts
accusedpetitionersofvotingmorethanonce,andtwo
SPeCifiedabsenteeba].Iots.A1]threecountSaccused

Petitionersofvotingfraudulent]'yoril}egally.A1though
the incictrnents are flawed if read literally ' they contained

sufficient information to notify petitioners of the charge

of rroting more than once' Pur-'-hermore' P€--i'-ioners could

employ the entire'records in pleacing doubl.e jeopardy in a

later case. Russell, 369 U'S' at 764'

C. Insuf f iclent factual and l'eg

The Court rejects petitioners' claim that the

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The Court does, however, find that Petitioners.

sixth Amendment rights h,ere violated because they h'ere tried

for offenses hrith which they were never charged, and that

Bozeman,S COnviction violated Jackson v. viroinia' Because

of the Jatter finding, the Double Jeopardy clause Prevents

the state from retrying Bozeman, Burks v. united states, 437

U.S. I (19?8), and the writ as to her sha1l issue at once'

The state mBlr however, retry h'iIoer, Greene v'!'lassey, 437

U.S. 19 (19?8), and the Court wiLl allor^' it ninety Cays in

which to do so.

Separatejudgmentswillbeenteredinaccordancewith

this memorandum oPinion'

DONE this 13th daY of APril ' 1984'

/,/-f'
I]NITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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lllopboac
G/t3.$(D

l,aw Offices
Solomon S. SctY, Jr.

e,nd
Terry G. Drvlc

Attoneys rnd Couasellors

,le Cr}tr HUI Bod
IogoorrT. Aleblar !16

August 9, 198{

!lr. Jerrl E. Parhan
Superinteadentpilkens Corurty Eoard of Bducation
Probatc Building
Post Office Box 32
Carrolltonr Alabana 351{7

Re: llaocie Bozenanr

Dear Sir:
,lt?ris office rtPreBeDts ttaggie Bozenan tho uas gralrle-il a
leave of absenle frou her ieaching duties Uy th9 Piclens
Eor-ty-g"ara of Education pending-disposition of criuinal
c,Uargls 1-nding againet her at t5e tine of the leave.

As you are 1-rhrps ryare, the crlninal elarges agSinst
llrE. BozeEaD UavL been dismigsed. AccordinglY, please
advise - of tlre date antl tl.ne t'llrs. Bozenan should
report to resrre her duties as a teaclrer uith the
Pilkens Corurty Board of Education.

Irilta3 Admr
P.O Bos 3815

SSSr/'bcb

ccs lrs. Xaggie Eozenan
llr. Joe L. need

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RespectfullY,

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lE: llaggle Dozcnea

De.r l{r. Scey:

tbe Plel,coc Gonaty Doerd of lducrtlo Dctf-g la rrgulrr
rcgsloo lrst cvcalag toolc'-dcr coosLdqretloa your lrttcr of Augurt 9,
t9E4 rcqucrttEs Cbe rc-cryloyrcat of r.ttl'c lozorn fro e t'cevc of tbeeacc.

fbe lcrsc of ebeeocc you rrfcr to crylrcd tD DGcGrb.r of 1981.
Iri. !63-n rad ber AEA ettotrcy Eac Dotb rdvlrcd co thf r frct by lcttcr.
At ebout thlr re tlr, tbc toerd acbcduld e bcrrlag for Xrr. !s2G-'n
rndcr tbc Alrban lcecbcr lcourc Lr for tbc purporc of cmrldcrlag tbe
cacclbtl'oa of bcr costrrct. AII mtlcG3 Erc tlvca la rccordeocc yltb
tbc Tcnurc lrs rnd rt tbc tlrc.of tbc berrlng la Jenuery of 1982, t{ri. Eozenaa
fellcd to rppcrr. fbc Doerd votcd to c.-cd bar coutrrct rt thrt tlu .sd
30 Dotlflcd ber of ltr dccfuloa.

I hevc edvlrcd tbc lorrd rhrg rll rlghte tbrt !lre. Dozr-au had
rnder tbe Alabr-o Tcecbcr Teuurc lrr uere properly crtcndcd to ber ac, 1o
ty future oplnloa, vcre eII of hcr rlgbts to duc proce8a.

If you usat to dlrcuss thl3 rattcr furtbcr ple.og feel free to
coatrcc, D rt your coavr-lcsce.

tours tnrly,

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T{ESTERN DIVISION

MAGG I E S. BOZ EMAN, )

VS.

Plaintiff,

Def endant.

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IT Is STIPULATED AND AGREED bY and

between the parties through their resPective

counser that the dePosition of ga[Eg-Y:-Plx!

may be taken before tlavid t' Millerr

Registered Professlonal Reporter and Notary

Publlcr State at Laxge' at the law off ices

of cooPer r t'litch, Crawford ' Kuykendall &

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A. President. All of the positions,

including the President and chairman of the

boarC.

e. How long did you work for that

bankr aPProximatelY?

A. 91e11, I when I came back f rom

the service in the Fifties. I worked some

before then, came back from the service, I

have been there since.

Q. When did you first become a

rnember of the Pickens County Board of

Education?

A. In 1959.

Q. And did you serve continously?

A. Right.

0. Until how long?

A. I am stiIl on it.

Q. StilI on it. So you have been on

it twenty-nine years, roughly?

A. Right.

Q. Have you ever held the position

of chairman of the board?'

A. Yes. I have been chair!nan and

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acting chairman both, from time !o time.

e. Do you currently hold any
positlons like that?

A. I am I am second I dont t
know whether associate what do you call
that, vice chairman, I suppose.

0. In the late Seventies and early
1980s did you hold any position on the board?

A. Late Seventies, and Eighties, I
donrt think so. Unless it eras vice chairman.
I am not sure.

Q. Nowr prior to I97g7 Ietr s start
with that period, were you a,rare that Mrs.
Bozeman was a teacher in the pickens County
school system?

A. Yes.

she not?

A. yes.

Q. And active politicalfy in the
County?

A. Ve f y.

Q. In I97B $rere you up for

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re-election?

A. I think so but I am not sure.

am not sure of the dates that I ran'

Q. Around that time when You were

for re-election, I say arouncl that time

because you are not sure of the precise date

did you have oPposition frorn a black woman?

A. Yes. One year I CiC, I have

fotgotten which Year it wES.

up

e remember that she was I'1rs. Bozemanr s

candldate and that 1s about aII I remember.

Q. AII right.

A. I donr t remember her name '

Q. That was mY next question. Mrs.

Bozeman rras actlve in her camPaign?

A. VerY much.

Q. What clo You mean she was ['!rs '

Boze:nanr s candidate?

Q.

A.

A. When she

she handed me some

Bozeman had printed

Who was that?

I donrt remember. It vras

came to solicit mY vote,

cards that she said l'trs.

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Q. You mean even t'hou9h she was

running against you she solicited your vote?

A. Yes. She was not too much aware

of what was goin- on on the School Board'

She said with no offenEe, she just wanted my

vote.

Q. I guess that is a nice thing to

do. But that uras prior to the r78 prior

to the election that she came and told you

Mrs. Bozeman had had

A. About the same thing haPPened

with three of them who ran. Not clear in my

mind which one which ones they were. One

was a rnan and two of thenn were wonen, I

believe.

Q. Was that aII in the same election

in the late Seventies?

A. No. Dlfferent Years. Each time

when I ran, someone ran a black ran

against me.

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A. Two of them did.

Q. okaY.

A. In fact, I started to vote for

the f irst one. I said what is your platform.

He said I want it back like it used to be.

And I said wellr I might vote for you then'

Not so much turrnoil.

O. Novr, when do You recall that

it was out of the election where this blaek

vroman came to you and showed you the cards

that Mrs. Bozeman tras Proscecuted?

A. Was it af ter or bef ore You mean?

Q. L mean, was 1t as a result of

some actlvity during that election that Mrs.

Bozeman was Proscecuted?

A. I donrt think so. I donrt

remember. The dates are kind of hazy. I

donr t know which came first or second ' I

donrt I donrt connect the two at alI.

O. We11, let me ask You this. Prior

to FlrS. Bozemanrs prosecution and conviction,

to your knowledge, had the Board ever

considered firing ltrs. Bozeman?

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O. If she had not if she had been

found guilty in that trial in if she had

been found not guilty in the trial in

Pickens Countyr BS Judge Hobbs said she

should have been back in the late Seventies,

would she have been terminated?

MR. WARD: I am going to object,

that calIs for speculation. He can say what

he would have done but I donr t know about

the othet Board menbers, unless they told

hin something.

Q. OkaY.

MR. gtARD: You ean anse.'er just

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A. Eor mY the onIY thing I can do

as he said would be speculation. I would

think that probably it would have come uP

anyway later on sometime along the 1ine. As

long as she defied the principal and the

education instruction and the Boardrs

instruction.

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your opinion would it have come uP?

A. I am not sure because, of course,

she $ras un<1er tenure, and tenure is pretty

harC PrettY hard to have anY case in

tenure they 9et a trhole lot of heIp, free

help and so forth. It is hard to do

anything along that Iine. Ue e'ere in a

pretty good position to have done something

I think. I would just 6ay during the next

school Year, something like that'

Q. And You assume in saYing that

you assume that she would have def ied her

principal in the next school Year?

A. Based on Past behavior.

Q. tlOW

A. She didn't seem to mind def Ying

anybody because she I think she felt she

had a suff icient political -- politically

she felt like she could do what she wanted

to pretty we11.

O. WhY do You saY that?

A. Because that is what I think'

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you wouldn't have said it. But I mean what

1s the basis for Your saYing that?

A. Just her actions. I donrt know

exactly how what I could put ny f inqer oD'

But when she was Cef iant she would just' say

that she just would te11 you what she is

going to do and pretty weII 9et it very

often get it done.

Q. And vrhere would she 9et it done?

A. Wherever lt needed to be done.

Q. That was using her PoliticaI

influence to 9et things done?

A. I think so.

Q. Did she have PoliticaI influence

at the locaI level in Pickens County?

A. No .

Q. Where what sras the source of

her political influence?

A. I am afraid I better not saY that.

I know where it w€lsr I don't think I should

say. I might be required to Prove it. And

I probably couldnrt do it.

Q. I understand You are testifYing

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basedonyouropinion.Butlthinklwould

liketoknowwhat,youropinionisastothe

basis of her Political suPPort'

A. One of our Senators.

0. Who is that?

A. HaI llefIin.

O. She tras Perceived as being close

to Senator Heflin?

A. PoIiticaIlY I would saY.

Q. glas she Perceived as being

politicatly close to any other politicians?

A. Not to mY knowledge'

Q. NowT when Judge Hobbs set aside

Mrs. Bozemanrs eonviction in ApriI of 1984'

that was pretty widely publ ic ized over in

Pickens CouhtY, was it not?

A. It was.

O, And You either read about' it in

the locaI newsPaPer or heard about it

through some other means?

A. Right.

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conviction, right?

A. Right.

e. And then in August of I984 You

were aware that she lras she asked to be

allowed to return to work as a teacher in

the Pickens CountY school sYstem?

A. She requested to be reinstated

but she haC resigned and we Cidnrt I mean,

she had gotten two leaves of absence which

$ras as far as we could 9o. As far as the

Board vras concerned she was not if she

wanted to be employed she needed to make

application just Iike anyone else because we

had no further obligation. Since the time

had run out and we had a hearing for her and

she eras she waA f inally dismissed. She

didn't appear at that t.ime.

Q. Do You know whY she didn't aPPear?

A. I donr t know whY she does a Iots

of things.

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f irst One. YOu $rere a$rare of her requeSt to

be reinstated as You saY?

A. I saw the letter.

Q. You sab, the Ietter from AttorneY

Solomon SeaY?

A. r did.

Q. Asking that she be reinstated?

A. r did.

Q. That Ietter was taken uP at the

AugusE, 1984r Board meeting?

A. Right. One Boarcl meeting. one

of the Board meetings.

Q. And from what You said, I gather

your position is that she was not reinstated

at that time because, number one, she had

submitted a resignation and, number two, the

Board hac held a hearing and had terrilinated

her?

A. Right.

A. i{hat is the basis of Your

st,aternent in there, if I heard it correctllr

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any further?

A. She asked for one Years Ieave of

absence while she vras appealing, that year

was up anc we contacted her to notify her or

her attorneys that that was that leave

was had run its course. And she asked

fot another year which vre also granted. But

rre told the attorneys or told her that v'e

coulC not continue t,hose leaves indefinitely.

And I believe under advice of our

attorney that the tvro years was the as

much as hre could do anyway. We have never

given anyone else more than any more than

that. Our policy whether written or in

effect $re did not consider that vre neecled to

continue to give leaves of absenee over more

than two years.

Q. vie11, are You saYing both that

your attorney advi sed you that you could not

give her more than thro years Ieave of

absence?

A. I wonr t saY could not but should

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This could just 9o orr indef initely'

e. Sor You are saYing that the Board

made a PoIicY?

A. Until she could 9et some kind of

pardon or some klnd of something favorable

f or I t,o use her own terrnr E€instatement'

Q. Where did she come uP with that

term? 
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A. In the letter, I believe.

Q. We11, You said unless she could

get some kind of pardon. I wasn'q f ollovring

you . What vrere you tal k i ng abo ut ther e?

A. We11, she all along she vrould

make statements to dif ferent people that it

woulC be reversed or pardoned. she would be

completelY exonerated .

Q. -\nd she made those sta tements |.-o

you?

A. She dld not.

Q. How did You hear about those

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school and some of the teachers and fairly

common fairly common knowledge in a small

town, in a smaIl town sltuation'

e. I understand. I grew uP in

ttonroeville in south Alabama' And my father

is a banker down there so I think I

understand what' you are talking about'

But let me see if I can Put this

backincontext.whentheBoarddecidednot

to ex tend her leave beyond two years ' you

and, to the best of your knowledge' the

other member s o f the Boa rd knew that Mrs '

Bozeman wanted to extend her Ieave; 1s that

a fair statement?

A. I am not sure that I never saw

anything in writing that asking to be

Q. I didnr t ask it. BuE You had

heard through other Board members that she

wanted to extend her leave so that she could

get a pardon or be exonerated I think as you

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was aware that she did want continueC IeaveS'

Leave to be continueC' In fact' she wanted

at the first ask that it be made

indef inite. That she wanted to 9et a Ieave

until she could 9et the 9et the appeal

done. And that is when s'e granted her a

year.

Q. The Board decided that it would

not give her the leave long enough to have

her case heard say at the Federal District

court Ievel through a Habeas corPus Petitlon

as it wdsz JudEe Hobbs

A. We ex tended the second Year so

she haC a year and a year of extension'

Q. But it did not extend it so she

could have a Habeas corPus petition in the

Federal .District Court?

A. That lras not a Part of it' There

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Q. Whether any rePresentative of the

Board informed Hrs. Bozeman that it u'as

considering her request for reinstatement in

the August, 1984, Board meet'in9?

A. I am not aware that anY Board

mernber contacted her Personally' we did

answer her letter.

Q. You answered?

A. The IawYerr s letter '

Q. Answered the letEer the day after

the Eoard meeting?

A. Right.

Q. But Prior to the Board meeting,

did are you aware of anyone on behalf of

the Board informing either l,1rs. Bozenan or

her attorneY that her request for

reinstatement woulC be considered at that

Board meeting?

A. I am not sure. The Parharn who

was the there at the time as

superintendent could have said something to

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knowledge of it'

e. glhat is l'lr. Parham doing now?

A. He has just been defeated for

superintendent of education in Pickens

County. And so I imagine he is looking for

a j oh, .

e. While You were on the You and

your manY Years on the BoarC, has the

Pickens County Board terminated any other

tenured teachers?

A. we have.

Q. APProxirnateIY how manY during

your twenty-nine years on the Board?

A. We terminated one about a month

agot I believe. Sometime d,uring the

wasn'i it in the last month or two? It was

this school year r onyway. I would say five

or something like that. I am just guessing.

I am not sure.

O. It is a pretty unusual oecurrence

then, is it not?

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books for him, anC that hre consider that

incomPetent, after we found what was going

oo. After it was rePorted to us what was

going on. So I would say just a variety of

reasons that theY erere have been

t e rm i n a t ed .

Q. llould You agree Ehat theY were

all pretty serious things?

A. Yes.

Q. AIl right.

A. It would have to be serious to

terminate a tenured teacher. They have just

about every protection that you can thlnk of .

Q. Now, You men t ioned that a fter

August, 'g4, Mrs. Bozeman I forgot the

exact words that you used but, I think you

said sonething like if she had wanted to

come back to work she should apPIy or

somethlng like that.

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Q. WouIci You have voted to hire her

at that point?

A. I would not.

Q. Have You heard staternents from

any other Board member s who were on the

Board at that time as to whether they would

have voted to hire her?

A. I have heard everY one of them

say that they would not. I have heard

several of the teachers say that they would

resign if she was sent back to them or in

their school.

Q. But from Your otrn viewPoint and

from what the other Board members have tolC

you, if Plrs. Bozeman had applied the Board

would not have aPProved her aPPlication?

A. TheY would not.

Q. So it wouldnrt have Cone anY good

to applyr would it?

A. None whatsoev€r.

Q. AII right.

A. In mY oPinion.

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A. Right '

e. In r84 were atI of the Board

members white?

A. Ygs.

Q.AndthesuPerintendenEwaswhite?

A. Yes.

Q. I'lere any of the Board members in

| 84 politically aI igned with Mrs' Bozeman?

A. [ione whatever. Except that some

of them $rere maybe fellow Democrats or so:ne

part of that Democrat group' I was running

on the RePubl ican ticket each time ' And I

did get black votes, in fact had a black

camPaign manager most of the tine'

Q. l{ho was t,hat?

A. I rsould rather not saY ' lle i s in

theschoo}systemSolwouldrathernotgive

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Q. How manY of the other -- Iet me

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A. Yes '

A. And at that time v'ere anY of the

Board menbers pollticaIly aligned with Mrs'

Bozenan?

A. No .

e. In '82 or r8I or t92' when the

BoarC refused to extend Mrs ' Bozeman's leave '

at that time were aII of the Board members

white?

A. AII of the Board !nembers have

always been white so fax in my menory'

All of the superintendents have' five

suPerintendents and about sixteen or

eighteen Board meinbers, they have all been

wh i te .

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black elected from the area thaE I know' I

have been gerrymandered into the Gordo

dtstrict. I will not have an oPPortunity to

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in that district' so iny time will be up

I wonr t get to run the f u11 time I was

elected to seEVEr but I suPpose in November

is when theY change over'

a. And You what You charactexLze

as gettymandering resulted from the voting

rights Iawsuits; is that right?

A. rt did.

O. And i t wa s aPPr ov ed bY the

Federal District Court?

A. It tas.

Q. And that was a Iawsuit that has

been brought or not let me rephrase the

question. And that voting rights Iawsuit

hasbeenat].eastPerceivedagbeingbrought

byorsuPportedbytheAlabamaDemocratic

ConfeE€oc32 is it not?

A. Yes, I think there is no question

about that

Q. And Mrs. Bozeman is one of the

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A. Yes '

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A. None have ever been to mY

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she gras closest to was probably Parham. But

I would not say he tas politically aligned

with her. He might have been when he rvas

running.

Q. But generally sPeaking he was not

pollceally aligned with her?

A. I t'rouId not think so.

MR. wHATLEY: I think thatrs all

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A. 9Ie11r ot,her than my church af f iliation

ancl I just, retired from the Alabana llational

Guardr but other than that--

Q. Vlhat, church did you go t,o l{r. t{oLand?

A. First BaptisE Church ltere at Carroliton.

O. Do you presently hol<I any elected office?

A. Yesr naranr I am a School Board nenber.

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L97 6?

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off ice?

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IIhen $rere you elected !lr. NoIand?

In L976.

And you have held the Eame position since

Yesr maralu.

Have you held any other elected office?

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Have you ever run for any other elected

l.Ior Elaram.

Have there ever been any blacl< school

Nor D?rBtil,

Do you knotl of any blacks who have ever

run for the School Board?

Board menbers during your t'enure on the Board?

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ratio that we had to hire according to the Court

Order ancl I bel ieve it waE 60/ 40 .

e. So as far as You know there are 40

percent minoritY teachers?

A. Yes r ma I anr trl€ have to-- every year lre

have t,o up Baybe this ]ast Court Order at the

beginning of each school year ue had to list, each

teacher and the color within tbe system.

Q. Do you know how long the school systen

has been under this Court Order?

A. I believe it was bef ore I t'ook of f ice r so

that would have been before L976.

Q. Do you knotr what court iesued that Order?

A. Nor Ealam.

Q. Do you knot'r who you report, t,o every year

about, the nunber of teachers that, you irave?

A. Ue would have t,o check t,he

Euperint,endentts officer I personally donrt l'.now

rlErn€s r but, I do know of a ratio t,hat, tre vras unde r .

Q. Have you part,ic ipat,ed in the ternination

or suspension of any t,eacher since you have been a

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were?

A. Vlell t af couES€ r l.trs. Maggie Bozenan

would be one and right off the toP of my head I

just, donrt renember any othersr but--

Q,. There havenrt been any others or you

canr t remember?

A. I just canrt remember, I am sure there

have been others.

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Do you P.now tlaggie Bozemanr l.Ir. lloIand?

Ygsr naram.

And how do you know lirs. Bozeman?

A. Wellr BS I was telling you I started with

insurance in L962 and at thai, tine when I took the

insurance debit l.Irs. Bozeman was one of the

nembers on my book to collect fron.

Q. So you have llnown her since L962?

A. Yes r IIB | 3Io.

o. And you selL her insurance?

A. I donlt Dolr.

Q,. You d id t,hen?

A. I did then.

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A. Yesr marala.

O. Was that here in Pickens County?

A. Ye6 r na I an.

Q. Do you know hol long she had been a

t,eacher in Pickens CounLy?

A. Bef ore when I f irst, net, her r rro r Ea I amr I
Eure didnr t.

In your capacity as a Board tn€lltberr doQ,.

you knorv rshet,her or not !1rs. Bozeman was a Eenured

teacher ?

A. Yesr roa'aril.

Q. And was she?

A. She wosr !€sr naran.

Q. What is you r underst,anding of what a

tenured teacher is?

A, I'Ie11r onc€ a teacher teaches in t,he

system so many t€ElESr I believe it lsr I get my

years roixed upr it is either three years and we

hire then back for the fourth or something like

that, and they go on eenure.

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Q. DO you recall any c ircumstances t'hat you

became aware of where Mrs. Bozeman was discipiined

either by the Principal of her school or the

super inLendent or the Boarcl of Education?

A. I only renelrber us getting sone lett,ers

f rom l,Ir . tIill iam Rice I the pr inc ipal r tell ing her

that-- telling uE at that tirne that slre was being

insubordi.nate as a teacher.

bu t,--

Q. Do you recall or did you ever l<now what

the underlying circuristances of this charge trere?

A. I'JeIl r I know of sone of the reasons he

give that.

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Do you retrember when that, was?

Nor rilataEIT I dontt renember any datesr

I{hat were those reasons?

One of then was that each t,eacher r not

only Aliceville r but, a1l our schools r vle have a

sign in st,atement when they cone in they are

supposed to sign in at a certain tine and she

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A. And al.so e6ch ueecher in each school 1s

cuppose<l to bave a lesson planr weekl1l lesson

planr ond iL is uty understanding thae Bhe wasntt,

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6uppo6ed t,o bett,er theirseives and up their

stanclard of, teaching and 6he didnr t Patt,icipate

this.

Q. trrE€ these educat ional prog raIRE UhaE they

aEe suPpoEed to i)articipate in?

Anything else?

And also in the guernrer eash teacher i.s

I lrouLd think eo.

Continuing education Prograns?

Yesr naran.

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Q. Do you know uhether or not a teacher in

t,his cchool Eysten hae ever been suspended or

dlscbarged for fallure to conply rrtth any or aLl

of these requirenent,c?

A. We wouid juet have t,o go back and looli at

t,ho Board recordsr I riontt recafl any.

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failure t,o conply with these recJuirenent's?

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Do you recall any other t,eacher ever

!'Iho is the principal of l'1rs. Bozenanrs

!.tr, I'tri11ian Rice.

fs he white or black?

And thatts at the elenentary schoo]?

Yesr maram.

Do you recall !{rs. Bozeman ever attending

A. Black.

Q. Hovr long has he been pr inc iPal ?

A. He lras pr inc ipal when I went on the

Boardr so I dontt know how long.

o. Is he still the principal?

A. Yes r mar am.

any Board meetJ.ngs?

A, Ygsr lcaran.

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A. Vlhen I first went on t,he Board she net

pret,ty regular !,rit,h us r ]/e I r na r aD.

Q. Did she discontinue coming t,o Board

neetings?

quit coning?

A. I{eI1r af ter she waB sent,enced and cane

back horne and I don I t, renember her att,ending over

once or tlice since she came back.

Q. Do you reca11 l.1rs. Bozeman ever speak ing

at any Board meet,ings?

A. Yesr IilB'dlil .

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And at vthat tine vras that r when did sire

Do you recall wbat she spoke about?

Nor mal am.

Are you avare of l.1rs. Bozernan t s

involvement, in any poliEical canpaigns?

A. I t,hink naybe at the County Commissioners

or sonet,hing she might have suPported soneone in

the Alicevilie district, running r but other t,han

that I dontt.
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organizations?

I{elf r I t,hink she is a nenber of the

Deroccratic Party of AIabButBT IIDPA or

like thatr other than that I donrt know.

Do you l'.notr whether or not Mrs. Bozenan

member of the IIAACP?

I nas think ing maybe t,his was a Part, of

NAACPT I am not for sure.

Are you aware of whether or not, llrs.

is a member of any civic organizat,ions or

this conmuniLY?

I[or tnaran, I an sure not.

Or whether she ever was?

lilor roarato.

tlr. Nolandr w€E€ you al{are of when !1rs.

vras charged vrit,h a c r ine in this count'y?

Yesr IIIBrdtD.

And nhen do You recall that, rra6?

I dontt, renember a dater I just remember

vraE charged.

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notar ized i11egalIy r but other than that r t,hat, t s

the charge.

tirne you have been a ne&ber of the Schoo1 Board?

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Yes r rila t anr it vtas af ter I was a Board

Bozeman t{as conv icted of that of f ense?

A. Yesr DBtof,l .

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You donrt, reca11 the year?

IJor na'am, I dclnrt reca11 the year.

Do you reqail whether it was during the

And do you know whether or not ttrs.

Do you recall yrhen her conv iction uas?

Nor naranr Dot a dat,er I donrt.

Do you recaLl the School Board baking any

action after her conviction?

A. Yes r nat am.

Q,. And whaL action did t,he School Board

tali e?

A. Wellr she w&sr of cours€-- at the neeting

we authorized the suPerintendent to send her a

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because she $rould have had to have t ime to get t[e

letter. It is within 20 or 30 days after ue seL

one ihat,-- lre j ust, don t t say one day and have the

hearing t,he next dayr she has so nany days due

ProcesE.

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law to give her'

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Eclucation have the author 1t,y to susPend a teacher

on his own without any action from the Board?

1,1R. I,IARD: f objectr that, ca1ls for a

legal conclusionr if you tinow you can give your

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You donrt know whether he can?

I know in our locaL echoolsr our teachers

but they canrt susPend.

I mean does a super intendenL have t,he

to su6pend a teacher?

I would think that Daybe the Board vrould

to approve it.

Do you :ecal1 whether or not lIrs. Bozeman

requested a leave of absence?

Yesr mararil.

And what, is your recollection that that

absence vas for?

It was to appeal her convictiols.

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appeal af ter her f irst, year that, vre give her, it,

stiIl hadntt been decided, so she cane and asked

for another year and we give her another year to

appeal her conviction r but it tras overturned.

e. You understand her conviction was

overturned?

A, i{hat I an saying it was upheld I I didn I l:

mean it was overt,urned r it, vras upheld.

Q. So it is your unclerst,anding that l'lrs '

Bozeman t E conviction vras af f irned by the courts.

A. Yes r Iila t aEl.

O,, Do You knotr vrhat, court?

A. I{e11r all the vray f rom Stat,e of Alabana

Appeals CourL all the vay through ?Iashingtonr tbe

courtr United States Suprene Court.

O. Are you aware of any action by a federal

district court, in Alabama concerning llrs '
Bozenanr s conviction?

A. I an allare of one in Eoae other st'ate

where a Judge overruled it and said that she

wasntt guiltyr buE I dontt, think it waE in

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A. Yes r na t an.

Q. That said l{rs. Eclzeman was not guilty?

A. Ygsr [laram.

Q. I'ihat is your understanding of the status

of I.1rs. Bozeman at this t,ime in regards to tltis

conv ict ion?

A. i'tre11 r of couES€ r like I said if the Judge

said she wasntt guilty or the courtr then they

said that naybe she didnrt do any wEongr but as a

Board this conviction had been upheld at t'he t,ine

we nade our decision.

o.

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And when was that decision made?

Wellr it would have been when you asked

me vrhiie ogo r so Inany days af ter stre vras

convicLedr I dontt remenber the year.

Q. And you couldtrr t recall any ot,her hearing

ever being held in regard to l'1rs. Bozeman I s st,atus

as a teacher?

A. The one vre give her where she didn I t sholt

up or didn t t have anyone t,o stand uP f or her r

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A. That I rernember.

e. As a Iltember of the Boardr are you aware

ot. l,1rs. Bozernan requesting her job back as a

teache r ?

A. Yeg r ma I art.

e. And do you know vriren that request vlas

made?

A. Nor maranr Ilot the date.

O. Do you know t het,her or not it vtas af t'er a

federal court had overLurned her conviction?

A. I vrould say !€e r it was af ter they

overt,urned it.

Q.

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It vras after t,hat?

Yes.

I'Ihat action did the Board talie on that

request?

A. withOUt lOOlling a! Board ninutesr I donrt

renember.

Q. Was a hearing held at that tine?

A. I{o r na I an.

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Eosenart was gj.ven in rega:d to the bearinE that

ycru do r enoetttbe r ?

A. Yes r Ba t an r @vcrytiue tl€ r any teacher ve

aluays give then their uotice by regi6tered naii

and they aiuays sign for ie ceying t,irey received

the letE,er r and Ltren t of CoUIS€r the PSEE of f ice

sends back vhere theY oigned ic.

O. ltcw r.rar:y oEhcr teachera lrave you had t,his

sort of hearing for?

A. I clon t L renerober t,he number of t,eactters.

Q. Do you [euexlber havlng any other

hear ing o?

A. llor naranr I dontt remeErber.

Q. You clontt, renelrbei or you donrt thj'nk

there ever lrag been one?

A. I dontt renelgberr I wouid lhink t,here

bave been others.

8,. BuL you donrt renenber any?

A. tlo r Ina t an.

Q.. tlr. Iiolandr dr'8 you &trJaf,€r as e lieuber of

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grounds upon r,rhich a t,eacher can be Euspended or

dismissed?

A. I?eli, it has several lisEed. It seeIn6 t,o

me like insubordination is one and naybe conv:.cted

of a f elony rrould be two r and naybe norals reould

be three r buL I don t t, relaember anymore.

Alabama Teacher Tenured Law--

Yes ?

Yesr maratn.

I{hat is your understanding r sir r of the

You think these are all of then?

Nor maran, I am sure t,here are others.

!1r. Nolandr do you consider a convicLion

of a felony to be evidence of an act of iinmorality

by a person?

A. Yesr Etatam.

Q.. Do you consider evidence t,hat a

conviction of a felony has been overEurned to be

evidence of an imrcoral act by one someone?

A. In ny own heart just because it has been

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FIAGGIE S. BOZEFIAI{r

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PICKEI{S COUNEY BOARD OP
EDUCATION r

CIVIL ACTION NUI{BER

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DE F ENDANT .

STTPUI.ATTON

IT IS SEIPULATED AND AGREEDT bY and

beEween the parties through their respective

couns€Ir that the deposition of JACR pATE may be

taken before Michele E. Jonesr Coranissioner and

Notary Publicr State of Alabama at Larger at, the

Pickens County Courihouser Carrolitonr Alab&Iil3r on

the 29th day of I:larchr 1988.

IT IS FURTHER SlIPUi.,ATED AND AGREED IhAt

the signature to and the readlng of the deposition

by the witness is waivedr the deposition to have

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8,. And when vrere you a menber of the Board

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A. Ygsr malam.

Q. Eow were you electedr is that an at-large

election or are there voting districts?

F'rom 197 3 through 19 84 .

Is that an elect,ed positionr I.1r. Pat,e?

Different elections.
Is it at-larger does everybody in the

county vote?

A. I'Ihen I f i r st ran f or the Board of

Education it $tas at-larger fou !{ere vot,ed on by

districts if I recall rightr in the primary county

wide-- then in tire general election.

Q,. How often are Board inembers electedr vrhat

is your tenure in office?

A. Si:r years.

Q. Six years?

A. Ygsr maraul .

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A. Ygsr roaram.

O. And during vrhat election year would ihat,

have beenr if you recal1?

A. I donrt recaII.

6. I.Iha! rrere the eiect,ion years in which you

ran Mr. Pate?

A. 1974r six year termr aod then 1980 I

guess r,rould have been the othel on€ r I don t t

remember exactly.

O. Do you recall trho that black candidate

was ?

A. blo r ma I am.

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glere you unopposed in your elect ions?

Goshr that has been so iongr f donrt

remeinber r the second term i rvas unopposed and I

donr t even renenber on tite f irst one.

Q.

!'1r. Pate?

A.

Did you not run for re-eleciion in 1986r

llor nat amr I didn r t serve out, tvro f uI1

termsr s€€r you got 12 fcarsr I didnrE serve out

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A. I ran for Piciiens County Comrnission.

Q. So you ran for the Pickens County

Comnission?

A. Yesr maraIIl .

O. Ifere you successful in that election?

A. Ygsr mar am.

the County Commission seat?

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lfent in of f ice in ilanuary of 1985.

I{ere you unopposed iu t,hat election?

Nor mal an.

And who ran against you in EhaL eleceion?

In the prilrnary Jlmroy Doyle I'iilson and

Chester James.

O. Chesier Janes?

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And you presently serve in that capacity?

Yesr Iilatam.

And what year was that that you ran for

ChesLer Janes, rigirt.

And in tlre generai election?

In the general elect ion ivas oPposed by

Ganus Gray.

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Q. If,ho was the suPerintend€rrt during your

tenure on the Board?

t'Ihen did l.lr. Parhan take over as

superintendentr as best you can recal1?

A. Goshr I donrt rememberr r didnrt keep uP

with that.
O. What, occasioned l{r. Carpenter I s leaving?

At first Wj.l1ianr Carpenter and then Jerry

Beg your pardon.

I{hat occasioned }tr. CarPenter stepping

down as superintendent?

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Parham.

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official?

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ma t am.

Q. During your tenure on the Pickens County

Board of Educa!ionr do you recall hovl nany

teachers Ytere terminated?

He was defeat,ed in an election.

And so i,lr. Parhan lras an eLected

He was elected as suPerintendentr 1l€sr

Nor mal am.

Do you remenber any?

I donrt recal1 atrfr I lrou1d have Eo look

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at the records and see right no?r.

Q. But you donrt recall anY?

A. l'Iot right of f hand I don I t.

O. Dur ing your t,enure with the Board r do you

recal1 whac percentage of teachers in the school

system were black?

A. I vould say aPProxinately 40 percenl:

b1ack. It vras due to t,he Singieton ratio. I

believe we t{ere under those guidelines which the

population in the county vras apProximately that

nuch r Ehe bl ack popuJ. at i on r 3o i t was about, 60 / 40 .

Q. rgnat are these guidelinesr where did you

get these guidel ines I'lr. Pat,e?

A. I didnr t get thenr they were handed dovrn

to us througir the Singleton ratio.

o. Handed down from wherer from a court?

A. Right.

o. Cr f rom tite state?

11. Right.

Q. So during your t,enure on the Board tire

school sysieiil was under a Court Order to bi re a

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understood i{: to sa} r go ahead and anslrer.

O. I{ha'E did you understand tbe Order to be

tiren?

A. i,Ie1lr BS I stated while ago it is tlre

Singleton ratio-- applied t,o apProximately t,he

nunber of blacks in the county and that, rat'io.

a. Do you l..nou when the Court Order vras

issuedr I{r. Pate?

A. Nor mat an.

a. Was the school system under that Order

during your entire tinre on t,he Board?

Beg your pardon.

I{as the Order in effect during your

entire time on the Board?

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I donrL recalI.

Do you know l.{aggie Bozenan?

A. Yesr malam.

Q.

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Wellr I just knel she lras a teacher in

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O. She was not an employee then?

A. I didntt say she reas Dotr I said I donrt

recall her as one. I didn t t know every t,eacher in

the system when I first went on t,he Board of

Educat i on.

Q. How many teacirers are there in the syst,em

or $rere there when you ltere on the Board?

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I couldnr't te11 you.

How many scbools are there in the count,y?

We had one in each city in Ehe court,! r so

we have fourr four high schools ancl four

element,ary schools and t,hen in later years Ladotr

Vocational Cen'Ler t{hich is vrest,-- east of here.

O. $Ihen did you f irst, becone swdE€r I'tr.

Pate t of !,rho l.laggie Bozeman is or that she was a

teacher in the scirool sYsi:em?

A. That I s a hard quest ion to ansl'rer. I

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A. Aliceville Elenrentary Schooi.

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Educat ion?

A. Yes r lilEl t EIII.

O. Do you ever recall I'l:: s. Boz eman being

discipiined f,or any reason by the Board?

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t,eriainated.

Do you know what, grade Mrs. Bozenan

l{or mar am.

Do you know what school she was enployed

Other than t,he i,ermination?

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teachers?

A. The principal and your suPerintendent or

your adrninistrai:ion of the schooL sysLem'

Q. But as a Board member you v,ere not a'.fare

of any disciplinary actions against i'lrs. Bozeman?

A. Prior to the court suit thing?

Q. Yes?

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Did I,trs. Bozeman ever attend Board

neetings?

A. Ygsr mal am.

Q. And do you recall those occasions?

A. Not bY daiesr I know Mrs' Bozeman

at,tended Board meetings regularly '

Q. ReguIarIY?

A. Ygsr ma!aiil-

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A. No r ma I ain.

O. Did she ever speak at, Ehese meetings?

A. Yes r ltrar a:n.

O. Do you recaLl tf,llat ltrs. Bozeman spoke at

Board meetings about,?

A. Nor ma I an.

Q. Do you know of any political campaigns

that !1r s. Boze:nan rras involved in?

A. Nor maram, I never did involve nyself

witir poliiical activiLies.

Q. Excepi in your elections?

A. I wasn I t even involved with l'lrs. Bozenan

in my elections.

O. But You don t t linow of any otiler

candidates t camPaigns on your o\tn canPaigns that

l.1rs. Boseman t{as invoLved in?

I.tror matainr I didnrt, invoive myself in

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member of.

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poJ,itica.L st,ands in this comnunity?

!.tR. IfARD: I an gonna ob j ect unless we

def ine what politicai would be in this conte:lt.

Q. Are you aware of l'lrs. Bozeman I s act,ivity

in any voter registration drives?

A. Only through what, I read in the paPer and

rvhat the court had her involved in as far as

poJ. it,ical activities.

Q. I{hat have you read in the PaPer?

A. I{ell r the only thing I have read in the

paper concerning that lras the ai.legat ions that she

was involved in absent,ee ballots and then the

courtr her trial on that in laEer tines as that

de'lel oped.

O. And that's the full extenL of your

knowledge about Mrs. Bozemanrs poiitical

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A. litror I get the PaPer at, home and I am just

an individual member when I am at, home.

Q. Were you a menber of the Board of

Education when lltrs. Bozeman was convicted of voter

fraud in this counEy?

A. Y€s r uld I Em.

O. And do you r€c811r i'lr. Pater tuhEtt actlon

t,he Board tool< at that t ine?

A. At the time she t as convicted--

O. Yes?

I donrt reca11.

Do you know how you became aware of ii?

Fi r st r knevr of it was reading it in the

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request for resignation from the Board or grant,ed

by the Board to l.lrs. Bozeman at that time?

1.1!t. I{AR,D: f object unless !re narro'.,

dorsn lvhen you say n at that, t ine o .

o. At the tine of her conviction?

l.lR. IfARD: Are we talking about that

dayr the weekr immediately following?

Q. Iromediately following her conviction?

A. How wouId you define nimmediately', how

long a period of tine?

O. Irlithin two months?

A. I donti: recall t,he timeframer but I

renember l.trs. Bozeman asking f or a leave of

absence pending appeal of the conviction.

O. I'Iere you present at any Board rfleet ings

where the Superintendent of Education discussed

Iilrs. Bozenanr s status as a teacher wiLh the school

sy st em?

A. btot unt i1 t,he time that the

reconmendation vras made for terminat,ion and for

the clrarges that might have been against her.

O. Do you remeilber trhen thaB lras lilr. Pate?

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suspending her--

A. SuspenCing her?

o, On l{ovenber 6t L979?

A. I don! t recaLl the dates on that as far

as the suspension. I remenber her asking for a

Ieave or- absence pending her aPPeals.

O. Do you recalL on what grounds the Board

suspended l{r s , Boz ernan in Novenbe r of L97 9?

A. This was after the conviction?

Q.

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Yes r si r?

I{e11r ii was severaL reasoos r if I

recallr I don't recalL exactlyr the qonviction

rsouLd have been part, of it r the otirer charges t'hat

may have been brought forEh in a Letter wllich you

probably have bef ore 1rou r f couid prolrably look at

tirat 1et'i,er and refresh my memory as to what tirose

other charges may have been.

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1egal conclusionr but you can go ahead.

A. Beg your pardon.

Q. You can anslJer.

I.lIt. IIARD: i have ob j ecLed that, it irould

car.'l for a legal conclusion or interpret,ation of

t,he tenure lawr but you can go ahead.

A.

Q.

State your quest,ion again.

I'Iel1r let t s back upr are you f amil iar

with tire Alabana Eenured Teacit.er Lav, as a nernber

of the Pickens County Board of Educat,ion or forner

nembe r ?

A. I am faniliar with t,he treacher Tenure Latr

if a teacher is gonna be terminated. There is

steps you have got to followr but I donrt recall

the exact steps r I couldn t t cit,e t,hose right of f .

Q. Do you reca}l wirat tile g rounds f o r

suspension or termination of a ieacher are under

that 1aw?

A. It will probably be a nultitude of tirings

as far as under the tenure laisr but,--

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In any case?

I'IeLI r ii: could be a multitude of iirings r

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it, could be insubordination, a lot of thingsr as

far as the tenured thing.

Q. Anything else besides insulrorclination?

A. I dontt recal1 any right tloll.

Q. And yo.u donr t recalI t,he sPecif ic grounds

upon which !,trs, Bozenan vras suspended in ltrovenber

t97 9?

A. I{el1r if I remeinber in I97 9-- i donr t

remember t,he year L979r but I remenber in the case

in that it tfould itave been some things involving I

l<ner+ she vras having some problems with her

principal therer but a recor.lmendation hadn I t been

nrade in the Board as iar as that came uP on her

suspen6ion.

Q. Do you recail r l'lr. Pate r the condi'Lions

under which l,1rs. Bozeman request,ed a }eave of

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a year if I understand it rigitt. A year \ras as

J.ong as we couLd grant one at one t ine and that

she asked for an appealr if I recallr for a leave

or absence pending her appeal r and that if she was

convicted in court then she would subrniE her

res ignat i on.

Q. Do you know whether or not l'lrs. Bozeman

ever waived her riglrts to due process in a hearing

unde r the ALabana Tenured Teacher Lavr?

A. Yes.

Q. And what, were the circumstances t,lrat you

undersEand that she waived those rights?

A. fhere was a hearing set uP under the

tenure 1aw with Proper noE,ificaE,ion to that effect

and she didn t t shotr up f or the hearing.

o. I'Ihen wa s thae hea r ing ?

A. I donrt recall.

O. Do You retoemcer the Year?

A. I dontt renetnber right rtowr Ilor I rionrt.

o. You donrt recall the Year?

A. tlor I donrt.

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A. !{eI}r Et the tine of the hearing

docunentation vras given to us t,iren that sholred

that proper notification was given to her.

Q. Do you reca11 trhat that t{as?

A. liio r ma I am.

Q. At, the t irne of the hear ing r were you

aware of the status of I.1rs. Bozemanr s criminal

case ?

A.

Q.

Yesr maram.

And what did you understand the status of

that, cas e to be ?

A. That i t lrad been appeal ed al l the way

througs the Supreme Court and t,hat her appeals had

been exirausted at t,irat t ine.

O. Did you lrnow r'rhether or not, l{rs. Bozeman

had any case pencling in f ede ra1 court concertring

that conviction?

l-lR. WARD: The SuPreme Court, of the

Unii,ed Stat,es would be a federal court-- you mean

othr..r than that--

Q.

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A. No.

Q.

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You are not avrare of that ?

l'tro.

Are you areare of any act ion by a f ede ral

Of any action in federal court?

Yes?

I'Iothing more than I understand she lost

Nor I didnrt say lhat.

But as far as you are airare l'1rs. Bozeman

on aPpeal.

O. Are you atrare of Mrs. Bozemanr s Present

status in regards to that criminal conviction?

A. Vlell r I wouldn'L kncw what you stould be

asking as far as regards to her Present condition.

I understand that she was under the conviction and

it was appealed and then she lras sentenced and

then the governor pu{: her out r as I uncierstdtrd r

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A. i under st,ood at that t ime that, the

governor had puL her out at Tusliegee and tnen

laEer the gove(ror r I underst,andr I read througil

the media that she was pardoned.

Q.

A.

So you r ead she had been par,ioned?

If I recali rigirtr I donr't remember dat,es

or anything.

Q. l,Ir. Pat,er uhaL is your understanding of

ruho pardoned I{rs. Boseman?

A. I donrt recall everybody talking as far

as the Board of EducaLionr but the Governor of

Alabaaa rras involved in it at, thai time.

8,. Do you recalJ what year thai trould have

been?

A. No r ma I aril.

Q. At, the ti:ne in L97 8 and 197 9 wiren l'lr's.

Bozeman was charged anrl convicted here in Pickens

Countyr vrere you ever ca1led to testify before the

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A. I{or marari.

8,. Did you ever g ive a st,at,ement to the

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trial?

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Did you t,estify at llrs. Bozenanr s trial?

lilor mar am.

Did you knots any of the vritnesses a'c her

l,ior maram.

[Iere you present dur ing any part, of that

trial?

A. IIor ma'am.

Q. During the Septemberr 1978r Biectionr did

you ever give any information to the D.A.rs office

in Pi.ckens County about l'trs. Bozemanr s political

activity?

A. None whatsoever.

,a. I'Iere you alrare of her political activit,y

during the Septernber of L97B el'ections?

A. No r Ela I am.

o. Ivere you a member of the Board of

Educal,ion at that tine?

A. 197 8?

O. Yes?

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O. And do you recaLL talring any act,ions as

menber of t,he Board in regards Eo the employment

of lvlrs. Bozeman at that, time?

A. In 1984-- I donr t reca1ir tlotrr you might

produce a letter or something as far as she may

have asked f or her job baclir bu't I donr t recaIl

right offhandr I don't have a coPy of that in

f ront, of ine if that i s whaL it lras.

Q. You donrt recail i.Irs. Bozenan asking for

her j ob back or do you knot'r?

in 19 84 concerning lilrs. Bczeman I s employment

the schoo'l syst,em?

A.

Q.

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heI d

witir

either iile superintendent

Schooi Boarrf ever bringing

tsozeman during a Board

or an at,-'orneY for the

up the subject of l'lrs.

meeting in 1984?

A. I dontt recall right

to me like I heard something

her job back or sonething and

I dontt recall rigbL offhand.

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A. So you heard sonething about her wanti.ng

her job backr but you donrt, know lrow you heard

about it?

A. I{e} 1 r it could have been t,hrough

documentat ion of t,he Board neet ing r I haven I i: went

back and read those minutes.

Q. tsut you dont t ever recalI voting as a

menber of the Board on such a reques't?

A. SIe voted on so many things on the Board

of, Education' I dont t, reca1l the specif ics that,

weli.

o. Do you know trhether or not llrs. Bozenan

is presen'3ly employed?

A. Nor I donr t.

Q. As a former member of Picl<ens County

Board of Educat,ionr t{as it your underst,anding t[at

conrriction of a felony was grounds for dismissal?

A. A f el ony is what site lras conv ictecl of t I

am asking you--

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Q, As a former merflber of the Board of

Educationr is ic your understanding tirat

conviction of a felony is grounds for disnissal of

a tenured teacher?

A. I would say if l.lrs. Bozemanr rvhateV€E r

whether it vras a f elony r I don I t recal1 whet,her it

was a f elony r bui under the conviction she ha<i

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l'1r. Pa'Ber Lirat I s not the questionr 1et, ne

the question again. Is it your understanding?

I{R. tiARD: If you can anslrer it anst'rer

if, you canr t--

Under iitrs. Bozemant s conviction?

i don I t P.noe rvhethei: it vras a f eIony,

that,rs what, I asked 1lour I donrt knovr tshether it,

was a felony or vrhaE it teas.

Q. The quest ion wasn t t necessar i j-y in

referencc to l,1rs. Bozenanr l'lr. Pate?

Itn. WARD: Are You asiiing for any

felony?

Q. Yes?

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A. Yesr maraIIl .

Q. Tirat any felony conviction would be

grounds for dismissal?

A. Yese xnalam.

Q. Do you consider any felony conviction to

be evidence of imnoralitfr l,lr. Pate?

A. I don I t know how Eo ansvrer thai really.

Q, Yes or no?

A. No.

l{S. FRALEY: I'Io more quesi,ions.

MR. WARD: I donrt, have any questionsr

thank you.

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I{ORTHERN DISERICT OF ALAEA}IA

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DEFENDA}IT.

s r-T P U r. A 'F r o t{

IE IS STIPULAtrED AllD AGREED ' bY and

beErseen the paEt,ieE through their resPecEive

coung€I r that the deposition of IlAt;eY rrALR rray be

taken bef,ore l,lichele E. Jonesr ConrolEEloner and

uoEary Publlcr Stat,e of AlabaBa at Larger au the

piqkens counby courthouser carrolltonr Alabanar otl

t,he 29th day of tlarchr L988.

ITISE.UnTIIERSTIPULATEDAIIDAGREEDthat

the signature to aud the Eeading of tbe deposition

by t,ire $itnes$ io waivedr t,lre cleposition to have

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of RegiDcrars in Carrolltonr AlabBIr&.

O. And vhaE does t,hat job entail?

A. i keep up witir the registered voterc in

this coqlrEtr Ehe deathsr the change of addrESE€sr

change of rBEt€Er ttre Precinct, ttrey are to vote ine

et cetera.

G. Eow. long have You held that job?

A. I was apPoint,ed by Govert'tor Eunt !n

Oetober of, L988 r I riean 1987 r €zcuge ut€--

O, Is tiris an eleeted Posit'ion?

A.

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position?

A.

o.

Ilo r th i s ls an apPo intraent .

Anrl hov lorrg can You serve in t,hat

Four yearE.

l'lere you enployed bef,ore t'hls in any

oEher capacitY?

A. llo.

Q. So prior to October of, 1987 You Here

unetrPL oyed?

A. Right,.

Q. [Iousewife?

A. Yes r I helped rfiy huoband in hie bus iness r

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and llunanitieo.

O. AnYt,hing else?

A. lhat,Is aLl.

Q. Ifhat, elected offices have you held in

Fickens Count,ye l.lrg. Pair?

A. r.}ust the Pic!..ens County Board of,

Education for six years.

Q. That I s t,he only one?

A. Thai,ts the only oDBr ub-hub.

Q.

A.

and Has def,eat,ed,

Q,.

Ee rved ?

A.

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elec t ion?

And you juse seEved onc tern?

One term. I ran second term for chairtran

HhaL vrere the years of the tern t,hag you

r78 through 1984r is cbat s!x year6?

Did you have any oppos:tlon in the 1978

A. No.

G,. That lraa both :.n the prinary and t,he

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A. R,i.ght.

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to be eripeiLede Ei€Gting wlLh parents if any cone

forth that wanted to have a hearingr a Deet,lng.

e. Are these Board neetingo publlc?

A. Yesr they 8E€r

Q. Do you know hot, nany teachera t,here t ere

ernployed by tlre school syster,a rhile you were a

neDber of, t,he Board?

Bu6f,,ended or terninated rhile you were a Derlber of
ghe Board?

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o.

A.

O.

llor DiltEm.

Do yorl recali any teachers be5.ng

ltro.

Does that, neen Ror you donrt recallr or

nor titere rrerenrt eny?

A. llor I dontt recall any.

Q. I didntt ask the questlon very weII. Do

you know what percentage of teachers enpioyed in

the school syE,..etr grere black?

A. Approxinately 40 percent are black I
bel i€vG e

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O. That Court Order lras al ready in place

when you became a raember of the Board?

A. Yes r nal alx.

Do you know how long that Court Order hadO.

been !n effcct?

A. I be]lever I am not positiver but I

believe it had been in effect, approxirnaEely two

yeara.

O. Do you know who issued that Order?

A. l{or I donrt.

O. Do you know l,taggie Bozernanr l{rs. E'air?

A. Yesr [lo,rBEl.

Q. And hou do you know l,lrs. Boseman?

A. I know her by her presence at meetingo

t,hat rre trav€r she uas present at, 6ome of the

aeet !.ngs and I knew who she rr,as at Lhat t,1ne.

O. Did lirs. Bozenan speak at t,hese Board

neet ings?

A. At solse of thetu she d id r teo r raa t an.

Q. Do you recall what, she spolie about?

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agenda to opeak. I{e asked everybody tbat wanted to

opealc 60 ue cou}c] do t,he agenda to call the

euper int,endent and get on the agenda r EDd I know

she spoke one tiroe about thatr dif,f,erent thingor

ancl I clon t t recali r but tihe spoke at trany

diftereng tines'

O. Thatt s the only one ttrat, you can recall

spec ificaIlY?
Specif,icalIYr 1'GSr

Did you knos aE that tirne that' Dlrs '
Bozenan was a teacher in Ehe school syotem?

A.Aftershecatae!ot,heBoardEeeglngsand

sire w6E there she was pointed out that sbe uas a

teacher at Aliceviile Elementary I beliGV€.

Q.Doyouknotlwbet,herornot'l'!rs'Bozenan

lras a tenured teacher ?

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llere you ahtare of any disciPilrrarY action

Bozenan eigher bY a

or'che Board of
t,hat waE talien against !1rs.

pr inc ipal r 6trP€r intendetlt r

Educ at, i.on?

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out about, her voLing fraud trtratever ohe HeE

chargeci wit,h that, it did cone before the Board.

Sire did ask f or a leave of absence r I remeuber

thaL coming uP and then we EeL uP a hearing for

llrs. Boaenan on her coning back or whatever and I

know that the suPerint,endent dld show uE

registered letters that he had sent ['lrs. Bozepanr

I Bpec if ica3.1y reracnber t,hose. rlnd at tlr,e tlne f or

t,tre hearing I P.novr that ue dld all neet f,or a

hearing and she did not sbow uP.

Q. Do you recall when that hear ing tres?

A. lilor I <io Dot.

Q, Do you recal.l when ber conviction was?

A. Ilo r mB t an.

o. Do you recall lrhet,her or not the Board

act,ed to suspend llr s . Bogenan at any t ine?

A. I donrE recali that.

O. Do you resall when Ehe Board or did the

Board act to terrnlnate tlrs. Bozenan during your

tenu r e on the Eoari,?

A. I donrt renenber.

Q. Do you recall !lrs. Bozenan aok ing f or her

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A. I clonrt renenber.

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Board mernbe:: on a reque$t by l'1r4. Bozenan f or her

j ob bacl'. ?

A. t'io r if I were to see the nlnutes I could

probably recallr but offhand I do no! recall.

Q. Do !'ou recall or were you ever aware of

the outcone of llrs . Bozenan t s appeal of her

corlvlct,lon?

A. I reaci in the paPer where t,hat sbe H86 r

the CourL Order and where sbe lras senEenced and

sent of,f r and then I io recall reacling in the

paper wircre her appeal eas overturned and she was

pardoned oE whatever and she uas out of prj'son.

Q. Do you recail l;hen you r ead about that,?

A. llo .

Q. Do you recall the Board ever taking any

act,ion in regard t,o tltat, Pardon?

A. l{or I canrt say LhaL I rer,renber j'Er like

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e. Are you aware of any Poiitical aetivity

on t,tre par E of Hr E . Bo:eulan in th i s county?

A. l.lo.

O. Are you aware of any Poiitical cetrPaigns

Lhet I.lr s. Bozeaan lrac ever been invorV€d in in

this countY?

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e. !,lrs. Fair r os a f,orner rceEber oi Ehe

Board of Educationr aEe you f,anlliar wj.th the

Alabaua Tenured leacheE Law?

A. Soue of thern I Erl.

O. I{irat is your understandlng of, t,he g rounds

upon w[ich a tenured t,eacirer can be susl)ended or

disnissed?

A. Insubordinat,ionr convict,ed of a f,elonyr

that t s all t,hai I can th ink of .

O. Conviction of a felony is stated aa a

grounds for disnissal in that law?

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o. Conviction of, eny feiony?

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l.1rs. Bozercan wae aHare of that hearing or when

t,hat hear ing tra$?

A. l know that we did see a letter that the

6uper inEendent httd wr iEt,en to !1rc. Bozeman nak ing

her avare of a heai; lng r but i an noe sule at uhat

t,ine Eiris lroer but, I do know t,here htas a hearing

seL up and she did not co$e to the hear :'ll! r

e. Do you know t,he stabus <lf t'lrg. Bozenattre

appeal at t,he t lure that hear ing tras i:eld?

A. l{o r Ea I an.

Q,. [lrs. Fair r 88 a f orraer Board nenber of,

t,he Pickens County Board of Educat,ionr uoul'd you

consider evidence of a felony conviction that had

been overturned by a higher court to be proPer

ev idence of an act of irsnoral it,Y?

A. WeiI r in ury juclgment if it, was overt'urned

that, ie oaying t,hat they are not guiity.

O. So your ansuer is tror t,hat is not, good

evidence of an act of innoralitY?

A. Ygg.

!1S. PRtiLEY r tlo rnore quest,ions.

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I'IAGGIE S. BOZEDIANT

PIJAIIITIFP I

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PICI(EIIS COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION r

DEFENDAIIT.

CIVIL ACTIOT! NUI,IBER

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STIPULATTON

IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREEDT bY and

between the parties through Lheir resPective

counselr that the deposition of 4ERRV pARHAt{ may

be taken before Michele E. ilonesr Commissioner and

ltotary PubI ic r State of Alalrama at Large r at the

Pickens County Courthouser Carrollt,onr AlabBIilEr on

the 29 th day of l.tarch r I9I I '
IT IS PURTTIER STIPUI,ATED AT.ID AGREED IhAI

the signature to and the reading of tbe deposition

by the witness ls traivedr t,he deposition to have

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serve in t,hat, capac itY as well.

Q. Sort of, a renaissance emPloYee?

A. The superintendent, said "flunkien is the

t,erm he used to descr ibe Io€ r rlhatever r wherever I

need to fi1I.

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Q.

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How long have you had this job?

Three years.

Ilhat was your job lrefore this?

Superintendent of Educationr Pickens

Eour years.

Is I.'Iinfieid in Pickens County?

Itro.

uinf ield is in what coun{:y?

!larion and the cit,y systenr trro different

VIhat, years grere you Super int,endent of

County,

Q. tlow l ong lre r e you Supe r intendent of

Educ at i on?

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counties.

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Piclcens CountY?

A. July 1981 through June of 1985.

Q. llhat did You do before this tine?

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A. Whit,c.

Q. Did you have any oPposition in 1984?

A. Yesr I did.

Q.

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Q.

I{ho vtas that?

Ralph Snith.

Is he black or white?

A. tJhite.

Q. BIas that Your only opPosition?

A. Yes.

Q. Do you lcnowr Mr. Parhanr whether or not

there has ever been a black Superintendent of

Education in this counLy?

A. To ny knot'rleclge there has not been t of

couL's€r I havent t studied the hist,oElr just in ny

lifetiae.

Q. Have you lived in t,his county most of

your I ife?

A. All of nY lifer just 40 Years.

O. Cou1d You describe for us Your

re6ponsibilities as Superintendent, of Education?

A. The administrat,ion of t,he school systen'

Gl. llere you a vot'ing roenber of Lhe School

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super intendent.

Q. Do you have any or did You have any

authority as superintendent to suspend or

discipline or terninat,e a teacher on your ovrn?

A. I r.rould like to nake this statenentr if

any situation cane uP I would refer to the Title

16 Code of ALabana and fo11ow this and adirere to

it, specif icaily as vre did in the f our years. I

would siate an opinion at this point because I

haventt researched itr but I think the

superintenclent can renove from the classroon under

certain circumstances pending an opinion by tlre

Board r but that vrould be-- again io g ive a

srpecific answer I would research this or cali the

Boarcl al:torney and al1ou him to do such and trould

def initely conf er tsit,h lrim.

Q. Dur ing Eire f our years you served as

superintendent r do you recal1 how rnany t,eachers

were suspended or terminated?

A. I'Io r I do not renember tile exact nurober r I

P.now there !ras nore t,han ott€ r luore thatl l{rs.

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A. I lras trying t,o rene'mber one teacher that

didn t t, shos, uP f or rvork that lre had a hear ing

relative t,o her r but I do not renember her nane.

O. Do you recall any other reasons a teacher

was suspended or terrainated?

A. EhaL was the one I was reruembering. She

f ailed to show uP f or her duties. I t'rou1d have Lo

conf er with the attorney bef ore I woulcl anst er any

specifics about sone other case that, cane uP.

O. If ithout Eentioning DBIo€s r can you just

recall the circumstances under which a teacher was

suspended or terninated?

A. I would stil1 have to confer vrith the

att o rney

Q. Is that a refusaL to answer?

A. l{or I jusi want to talk to hin in privaLe

firstr you knorc Yrhat I an t,alking about Rayr the

gentleman tirat resigned and a:;esignaiion was

acc epted?

l,lR. IIARD: Letts go off the record.

( Off-ihe- record discuss ion. )

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Q,. Do you remember I'trs.' Bozeman ever

speaking at Board meetings?

A. I don t t remember the particulars. !{hen

she cailed t,o be placed on the agenda shg was

placed on the agenda and the reason I renember

thisr it said nissueso and it, was oPenr so I donrt,

remernber that, night what, she spoke aboutr but

'issues' lras the tern she used to be pLaced on the

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were?

Yes.

Do you recall what she sPoke about?

i ssues?

Yes.

But you don I t, receLl wlral: tirese issues

A. llo.

Q. Do you recaii only one circurnstance where

she called your office and asked to be pJ-aced on

the agenda?

A. She called more t,han once and lras always

placed on the agendar I dontt remember hovr many

tines r it vagtt t t a lot af ber I $ras super inLendent.

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A. No.

Q. Did you testif y at, her t,r ial?

A' No.

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Bozeraan I s appeaL of that conviction?

A. Wha" I read in the PaPer and saw on the

national r€lf s r I t,hinl< j.t was on TVr nay have been

the 1ocal channelr but I am ar.{are of it througlt

tire media.

Do you know anybody vrho did?

I have no idea t ho the wit,nesses were.

Did you attend any part of t,haL t,r ial ?

llo.

Are you a$tare of the outcome of Mrs.

And what is t,hat?

First of ali she was pardoned by Governor

Jar,res and later her conviction was overturned by--

if try meinory serves ne coir€ctr by a federal judge

and this trES r !f osh r I don I t renenber the date on

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O. Ilirile you lrere Superintenclent, of

Educationr do you recall any action taken by

yourself or t,he Boa::d in regards to l{rs. Bozemanr s

enploynent, as a teacher?

Action?

Yes?

No r there was no acti.on r I dicl one thing r

I will go on and voluni:eer t,his ' I tras contacEed

by two different at,torneys as suPerinEendentr I am

not sure t,he f lrst orle r SoLoroon Seay I think

called me over t,he telephone and I voluntar ily

told hin of the case and what,ever and ref er red

[in' of, CoEf,Ser to Ray I'Iard as our Board aLtorney

to contact him and it vras dropped. He never cailed

ne bacii or never said anot,her word to ne and t,hen

AEA-- I goi a call from tl:eir attorney and I

thinti-- the attorney was Jack Drake t,hat calied. I

know I lat,er taiked to Jack Drake and again I

ref er red hin to I,tr . Ifard and that vras the only

contact that, I had as suPerintendent in any

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point, and tine tlrat I had been contacted t'rait,ing

for anything eLse that night, develop and nothing

ever did.

Q. Did they call requesting infornation

about, the status of l,1rs. Bozenan I s job?

qonEacted you?

A. Her stat,us leas that she had been a

tenured t,eacher that had-- ve held a hear ing and

had disnissed and she was not employed by the

Pickens Countv Boal'd of Education at the t,ine.

A.

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Yes.

And what, was her st,atus at the tine they

I{iren did they contact you?

I don't remember, it was after the

hea r ing some't imes .

o. So there t as action taken uririle you were

superintendentr a hearing tras heid concerning l'!rs.

Boaenan?

A. I was t,he supe r in tendent that r ec onnencleo

dismissal.

O. And uhea was that hearing?

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blougirL Lo try ai:gention at sone polnE and tj.ile ire

brought t,he fiies and rte had drscusserJ h:.s

eapioyuent a:i the Boarci atborne!r and I r.lon t t

re::enber dat,ecr but cir;onoiogicaily we talli,ed

about his serving as tbe Board attol'ney and iL uas

<lec ideri t,hac this uouid be nost aPprops iate

because he was handJ.irtg aL1 i:hc Boardrs legai

cases rciratever tbey lreEe at t,he titie. He brougttt

to ny attention that her second }eave of, absence

bad run out and by ]atr I believe tbau you are oniy

alLowed to grant E,wo ieaveo of abaence and et' Ehat,

pcin! Ide d:.scusseC uirat, opE ions ttere avaiiabie

logafiy, If I again senei,rber co:rectly tire oniy

opt,ion uaji sincc Eire coui.dn t t ret3uccE a t,hi.rrl

leave of absence legaily t,ha! we irould set tire

hea;ing and go through t,ile original rJisnissal

proseedings thac had bcen start,cd pricrr to ny

suller:ntendency. irt tirat, poinL and tine ire ditl go

tirrouglr wit,h it I Eio f th:nlt .r.E, rrJas a!ter tho i i rst

of; tl:e year beiore the hear ing 'Jas iloid -

O. Aiter t,he firsi: of, cire year in 1983?

A. Yesr aft,eu .Tanuary tile firct of 1982r

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bi;irrging nc ug i:c dace aJ i:ar a3 tilc st,aius oi' the

siluation wa6 pr:.or to tirae and at cbat tine Lhe

docurienLs !re::e 1ef,t, on fi.Le. You calt see Lire da=,e

thc l.e'Iter tras wrlt,ten and i an tsure I carried 1t

to t,ire Board ano sinply inforned tiren of ehc

fact,-- llr. ?'Iard I belj.eve uaii present-- abouL thc

ieave of absence bad run out, and trltat, optlons were

available and I goL authorization t,o Prepate for a

hear ing t,o det,ernine her sbatus.

Q. I'lere you auare of t,he stat,us of l'lrE.

Bozenan t s appeaj. or convlction at that t,ir.ie?

A. '![es r at that t lne she had eshau si,ed he r

apSleal up througir tlre Unil,ed Sta'ces Suprene Couut,

ai tbat t, ine .

o. Do you knorr vhe ther t,Ire;e wor e any o i:he i;

acbions pending concerni:rg aer appeaJ.?

Ar llor I d:.dnrt, th:.n!r you cou.Ld go an!'

f urt,her Llran t,irc Suprel]e Court r oDviousiy later

she found ano{:hcr avenue of appeai that i trEsn I c

a,.rare e:(rirtede I t,ltougiru {:ire Supro;re Court irac .li:.

O. Did you presidc at the heacing Lhat t as

ircLd conccrning iter status as a ieacirer?

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And wi1ai, fac'cs were presented?

lhe documenEs are available t,o lou r I an

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s ince L 9 B2 so I don I t, want,-- I knovr some of the

things that have lreen ment,ioned here today by some

of the Board members. I know we talited aboui the

conviction obviously was part, of it,, the failure

t,o sign in tras one it,emr iesson plansr if my

nenory serves ne correctr and professionaL

development which is a continuing education units

as required by tire school systen at tha{: Lime

while she tras enployed. Those aite t,he things that

I remember.

O. I{hai, is your understandingr sir' of 'Ehe

grounds for suspension or disiaissal as out,lined blr

the Alabama Tenured Teacher Lars?

A. There is one phrase t,hat i a1l'rays

reroenberr "just cause' is the last partr 3rI! "just

cause n rvhich it does def rne sone of tirose j ust

causes to be insubordinat j onr iramoi:aliEyr

incompetencer and I have been trying to rack my

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read the last sent,ence of the letter to llrs.

Bozenanr just, cause would be part, of it. That is

where the Board wouid have to decide whether it

r,ras just or not.

Q. tr'Ias t{rs. Bozernan present at t,his hear ing?

A. She d id not ai,tend.

8,. Do you know whet,her or not sire had aci,ual

notice of the hearing?

A. She signed for a regist,ered letter as

cert,ified.

8,. Iilere you superintendent in 1984?

r\. Yes .

8. tr'Iere you alrare of any circunstances where

!.1rs. Bozenan reguested [er j ob back at that, tine?

A. I.trs. Bozeroanr I clontt, renenber talking t'o

I.tr s . Bozenan at all .

Q. Did You Eaili t,o anYbodY?

A. I have already described tire trvo lavryers

I talked t,o that called me and gave ne the

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referred t,hem to l'lr. i[ard.

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asP.ed af ter the developrnen{: and that t s why I

wanted t,o teii You about t,hat.

o. Did they inforn you at that t,ine of the

st,atus of Mrs. Bozenanrs conviction t,haL had been

overtu rned?

A. As far as informing ln€r I was aware of it

as far as reading it in the paperr but I donrt,

rernember them saying 'i an inf orning you of this" .

I assume ihat t,his is what, t,hey lrere in reference

to and again that is trhy I would refer back to the

dismissal hear ing and loolt at, all the f acts r tha'E

was just, one elenent of it.

Q. D j.d t,he Board hold any type of hear ing or

give Mrs. Bozenan any oPportunit,y to come bef ore

the Boarcl as an entit,y in regard to her new

st,aEus r t,he overEurning of her conviction?

A. That is a lrard ques" ion. She had the

r lghL to ast< to be on tlle agenda. As f ar as ne

setti.ng a hea::ing or anyi:hingr no wEr!r she could

have come ancl nade a request before tire Board to

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llaybe I shouf dntt, have nade it, r but in

position of superintendent you have to weigh

infornation and facts that you have before you

it rras my decision t,hat this lras just, Lf she

go ing to pu r sue t,h is she needed t,o do it r not

doing it, f or her.

that no

Bozeman

So it rras your opinion as suPerintendent,

type of hearing vras necessary for I'lrs.

at that time?

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Not unless she requested it' and I did not

a requestr so uhy trould I have requested one

her-- do you underst,and trhat i am saying--

Did she request, her job back?

l.lr s . Bozeman d id not r rlo .

Did her attortreys?

I don t t renenber tshat he said. I didn't

any k ind of let,t,ei: request,ing anything

can recal1,

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I,IAGGIE S. BOZEMAItT

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PICKET{S COUIITY BOARD OF
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D EF ENDANT .

STIPUT,ATION

IT IS STIPULABED AND AGREEDT bY and

between the parties through thelr respective

counselr that t,he deposition of BOYD EDGEI'IORTH nay

be taken before I,licheIe E. ilonesr Coromissioner and

Not,ary Publ ic r SLate of Alabana at Large r at the

Pickens County Courthouser CarroL.Ltonr Alabdiilar on

t,he 29th day ot I'larchr 19IB.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED A}ID AGREED EhAt

the signature to and the reading of the deposition

by the witness is waivedr the deposition to have

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A. tlenrber of the Board'of Education.

Q. And when vrere you a menber of the Pickens

County Board of Education?

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1975 to 1982r November'

1976 to 1982?

I rras.

And who did You run against in 1976?

Ken Dyerr PauI Drake.

tlere e i ther of, those cand idates black ?

ltro r Lhat is in tire Pr imarY rlow.

llhai, about in the general election?

Unopposed in the general election.

Ilhat, about in L9S2 r d id You run f or

A. Right r }ilovember to llovenber.

8,. if as that one te rn?

A. One termr six Years.

Q. Do you recall r lilr . Edgeworth r whet,her or

not you lrere opposed in that, elect ion?

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re-eIecEion?

A. I did not run f or re-elect,ion.

Q. I{hile you wei:e a menber of t'he Picliens

county Board of Educat ion r I,1r . Edgetrorth r do you

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becomes tenured after three yearE.

O, And you understood l,lrs. tsozenan to be a

tenured t,eacher?

A. She was.

Q. Are you agrare of any disciplinary action

E,hat has ever been t,aken against llrs. Bozenan?

nay have been sone documentation which that would

be on fiie.

Q. But you are not aware yourself of any

disciplinary action against l'lrs. Bozeman?

A. Ilor not offhandr tou are ialking abouE

prio:: to the trial--

O. Yes r sir?

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Boa r d?

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By who-- DO.

The principalr 6Ep€rintendentr School

The School Board neirer t,aken elo1tr there

Oli ay.

Pr ior to the t,r ial in 197 9?

Ok ay.

Dicl Mrs, Bozeman ever at,tend Board

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She at,tended every Board mee',-lng?

I donrt remember her not, being there.

Did llr s . Bozeman sPeak at these Board

Do you recall those circuustances?

llor I dontt reca1l it.

Do you recalI what ltrs. Bozeman spoke

neet ing s ?

A. If she was on the agenda she did and then

at t,imes she vrould be r if she requested then t'he

Board ltould Let her.

o. At, tiroes you recaLl tlrs. Bozenan being on

the Boardt s agenda?

A. I an sure she was on it.

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about at Board neetings?

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I{or I donrt.

l'trot, any sub j ect?

llor I dontt recallr that is year5 ago.

Are you at are of any poJ.i.Lical campaigtls

that !.trs. Bozenan was i.trvolved in?

A. PersonaL camPargns--

Q. PoIiticaI canPaigtrs?

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Any political camPaign?

Or just a party--

Candioate?

$ior I dontt.

Are you agrare of any other Politicai

Do you knon t hether or not she held any

To my knowledger I donrt know.

Are you a rnember of the DIAACP?

I,1e ?

act,ivities on {:he part of I'lrs. Bozeman in this

c ounty?

A. llothing other than the charges they hao

on her.

Q. Are you aware of any political or civic

organizations that, l'lrs. Bozeman vras a member of or

is a nenber of?

A, I assume she was a nember of NtlACP r I

donr t, knowr I never saw anyrching specif icalIy on

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Q,. Did you know whet,her or not, l'lrs - Bozenan

was active in that organLzalion?

A. Nor I donrt.

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I{hy noC I.1r. Etigeworth?

llR. IfARD: i will ob j ect and you don I t

public politica] stands in this communit,y or any

political statenents t,hat she has ever made in

this connunity?

I an not gonna anst.rer.

Are you aware of any of l.lrs. Bozernan's

lIot, of f hand r I don I t recaJl oIl! o

Are you aware of any activity by tire

IiAACP in this community?

have io answer.

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Ohr I ara sure they are active.

Do you knors of any?

A. Riglrt of f I don' t, knolr of anybody r I

dontt know any of the officia]sr I am not,

af f il iat,ed wit,h Lhai.

Q. Do you agree witir tire poi it'ical stands of

'che NAACP in this connunit,y or with their

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A. I donti knovr trhat tireir activity is.

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an sure it is here.

Q. But you ar e not alrar e of any of Ehe i r

activities?

A. l'Io .

o. llere you atrare of when or hotr l{rs.

Bozeman was charged witi: t,he crirae in this county?

A.

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c r ine?

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c r ine?

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lio r I ara not, aerar e .

Did you know she was charged with a

Sure r w€ knetu she sras charged.

Did you knoru she tras conv icted of a

She rras conv icteq of a c r ine .

Do you recall lrhen that lras?

IIor the date I couldnrt teLi You.

Do you knotc what she tras convicted of?

All I know is voting fraud.

Do you knorv the underlying basis of that

ci:arge?

A. t'Io r I an not f amil iar l{ith it.

8,. You rlon t t know any of t'he c i rcunstances?

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jury concerning any sort, of voter fraud in this

c ounty?

A. llo .

o. Have you ever given any statements to an

investigator or police officer or the District

Ait,orney I s of,f ice concerning any voter

registration or voter fraud in this county?

A. I'Io .

a. Do you know any wit,nesses who testified

eit,her for or against I.1rs. Bozeman in her trial?

A.

o.

t,ria1?

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rras convictedr Er€ you altare of any activity or

aci: ions taken on t,he part of t,he Board of

Educat ion in regard to her stat,us as a teacher ?

I.Io .

I'Iere you present during any part of t,hat:

!tro .

In 1979r 11r. Edgeworthr wiren l,1rs. Bozeman

Just on the convi.ction.

At the t,ime of hcr conviction in 1979

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Q. Yes r sir?

A. Let me s€€r ofihand I donrt reCailr I an

sure if you have it.

Q. You don t t recall as a nenber oi the Boai:d

tak ing any action concerning l'1rs. Bozenan I s status

as a t,eacher ?

A. We did butr let me see what I want to say

oorr r sire uos r I believe she was of f ered a hear ing r

not, oniy on the conv ict ion charge trow r it vras on

the docuinent,ation about aIi of i't r it' was in one

thing.

Q. Do you recall whether or not she was

suspended at t,hat t ine?

A. In--

O. llov eatb e r L97 9 ?

A. I believe she gave us a let,ter of

resignailon or askeci for a leave of absencer she

asked for a leave of absence.

Q. Do you reca1l anYthing about a

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A. tlellr lf€ gave her one yearrs leave of

absenC€ r that I s ail we could grant, at, Lhe time.

8,. Do you recall whetl:er or not she t as

granted any other leaves of absence?

A. She was granted another year I s leave of

absence a year 1ater.

O. Do you knor'r or can you involve the status

of her appeal on ber criminal conviction at, the

tirae of her second }eave of absence?

A. I,Ior i canrt.

O, Are you auare of the outcone of the

appeal of l,trs. Bozenanr s criruinai conviciion?

i1 . At, that t ime ?

O. At any tiine?

A. I^ieli r Et that tine she losi her appeai I

you knowr dlrd t,hen since tlren she has f iied other

aPPeaLsr but I an not airare.

O. Are you aware of the st,atus of !'lrs.

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A. llo.

Q. Do you know tshether or not she st, ill

si:ands convicted of a cr ime?

A. No.

Q. rlre you alrare oi any action on t'he pari,

of a federal disLrict court, in regards to Hrs.

Bozenanr s conviction?

regarding l,lrs. Bozeioanr s st,alus as a teacher in

t,he school systen?

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Q.

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tlo .

Did you participate in any hearing

I probably didr but I canrt recal1.

Do you recall a hearing concerning her

I t, vras .

Do you knors wheLirer [.irs. Bozernan is

enrployed at the present, tine?

status as a t,eacher in l9A2?

A. I am sure Lhe records vril1 speak for

itself r but I cant t recaLi everythingr just wha'c,

{:ianspireC.

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l.[r . Edger,rorthr are you f aroil iar lrit,h the A]abana

Tenured Teacher Law?

A. At thai tir,re I wBS r Dowr I couldn I ! go in

det,ail or anything.

O. Do you knotv uPon what grounds a teacher

can be suspended or terninat,ed?

A. Immoralityr there is seveEal of then

l isted in t,he code on that r but I couldn I t telI

you lrut I know imnor al it'Y.

Q. Do you recali t hether a teacher vas ever

suspenclecl or disciplined during your tenure on t,he

Boa r d?

A. I cantt recallr I dontt renember iL ii il:

tIa5.

Q. You cantt recall taking any acLion on any

t,eacher r terninaiing any teacher?

A. To nY knowledge, no.

Q. l,lr. Edgeworth r do you consider t,he

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itself for terminat,ion or suspension of a ieacher?

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could ber but it, depends orlr ,I say a lot lrould

depend on t,he felony and there l{ou}cl be a lot, of

circumsi,ances invoi.ved.

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It, would oepend on t,he conv:.ction?

The total convict,ionr oor I wouldn't say

things.

Q. you consider the conviction of any

f elony to be evidence of an aci of inraorai ity?

A. Looks t,o me ] ike it would have to be r you

wouldn I t be convict,ed r and then again you have got

to describe irnmoralitY--

whet,her that could be or not.

Q.

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Do you consider--

But there coulci be different grounds and

Q.

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I{e}1r ES you undersLand t,ire {:erm?

?Ihere it is norals or vhatnot, ancl

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In 1982 do you recal1 wiret,her l'1rs.

certainly if you are convicted you are not doJ.ng

ruhat you ar e supposed to do . You ar e noi: do ing

right, or you rvouldnt t be charged to s'tart wit'h.

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hear ing concerning her status as a t,eacher?

A. She vras given a not,ice of a hearingr but

I don't think r,re ever held that, hear ing because lre

got her letter asking for a yearrs leave of

absence and we fulfilled her request.

o. So as far as you are aware there lras

never a hear ing held concerning l.trs . Bozeman I s

stat,us as a t,eacher?

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Q.

!'ihen--

During your ent,ire tenure as a rnenber of

the Board of Educat,ion?

A. I{e1} r norr later on af ter she vras

sentenced I bel ieve it, vraS r tiren we had the

hea r ing .

o, Do you recall what, Year?

A. Iio r I don I t, recall r wellr it, nould have

had to have been in L9B2 because it, ltras before I

wen'8, of f the Eoard.

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A. tlot as I am atrare of .

o. l.lr. Edgewort,hr if a person had been

conv icted of a cr ime and t,hen that conv ict ion had

been overturned by a higher couttr do you stilL

sonsider that to be evidence of an act of

inmora1ity?

A. Ai the timer t€sr if you was operaLing

wit,hin your ovrn mind and framework and thought it

trosr t€sr i nould consider it at t,hat time.

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at what t irae?

A. AL the t,ine she tras convict,ed or, Person

ox i'lhatevei.

o. But if that convict,ion vras overturned by

a higher court,r do you sti11 considei: thaE

conviction rvhich has been overturned to be

evidence of an act, of imnoraliLy?

I4R. IIARD: At what, tinre t f olIowing the

overt,urning or at the t,ime?

o. Irlhen it, has been overturned?

A. You loean foltolsing t,he overt,urning--

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Q. IL iras goL to be folLowing it or you

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A. I certainiy-- I do believe it, would be to

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1,1S. FRALEY: t{o more guestions.

&tR. I'IARD: I don t t have anything more

for himr thank you.

FUBTEER DEPOIIETIT SA,ITT.I T{OE



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RAY, Or,rvon, WARD & PARSoNS
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SePtember 9, 1985

Mr. Jack Drake
DRAKE, KNOWLES & PTERCE

P.O. Box 86
Tuscaloosa, AL 35402

Re: Pickens County Board of Education -
Maggie Bozeman

Dear Jack:

As you reguested, I would enclose a copy of the

December 15, iggi 1ett6r that was sent to Maggie Bozeman at
thetirnethePickensCountyBoardof.Educationdecidedto
re_schedule a hearing on tire proposed cancellation of her

contract. r ...rrr"t ii"a in-my tifg ?. copy of -any.notice of
Mrs. Bozeman'"-irrt"rrtion to c6ntest the Llncellation of her

contract. Th; goara dia pioceed to hold a hearing on the
date and at the time so specified, thereafter, unanimously

votingtocancelhercontract.Neitherl,lrs.Bozemannorany
persoll on her behalf appeared at the hearing' I also have

enclosed a copy of the tetler sent to l4rs. Bozeman notifying
her of the ae-cision of the Board made that same day.

The Pickens County Board of Education was asked

by soloman S"iv-to reinst.ate l4rs. Bozeman. This request was

presented to-tir" Board ""d-in" 
Board did decline the request

forreinstatement.I.lr.seaywas_notifiedofthisandofmy
opinionthat_thePickenscountyBoardofEducationentended
I4rs. Bozeman ":.i "i-ri.r 

right='under the tenure raw and to
due process.

Let me know if there is anything further we need

to discuss reagrding this matter'
Very trulY Yours,

RAY, OLIVER, WARD & PARSONS

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cc: Pickens County Board of Education

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