Correspondence - McCleskey, Warren Vol. 1 of 3 (Redacted)

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Policeman’s 

I iller Gets 

A Life Term 
By George Rodrigue 

Comtiution Stall Writer 

liber- 
A Fulton Superior Court jury de 

ated for almost two hours Thursday be- 

fore declining to sentence Otis Lee 

Miller to the electric chair for the July 

19 murder of Atlanta police Sgt. Jimmy 

Richardson. 

The six men and six women gave 

Miller, 22, life in prison after saycting 

him of murdering Richardson. They ba 

deliberated for about 3 1, hours over his 

uilt or innocence 

nave pleaded guilty to 
Miller would P Jo Hy 

wanted the death penalty in the case, ac- 

cording to Michael Washington, one of 
the murder charge had 

the defendant's lawyers. 
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Glenn L. Adams of 752 Iris St S. . 

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in the abduction of a young 
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Miller face kidnapping and arm 

bery charges 

Atlanta couple about two hours pri 

the killing of Richardson. 

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If convicted on the armed-robbery an 

kidnapping counts, Miller could receive 

additional life sentences. f the 
Richardson, a 10-year veteran © 

police bureau and head of its Afro- 

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McDaniel Street in southwest Allama 3 another man as they drove a car 

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with the station attendant and her son, then 

sped away. 

Richardson stopped the vehicle less than 

two blocks from the station. He did not know 

_ that the car had been stolen two hours carlier 

from Phillip Allen and Debra Cleveland, and 

he did not know that one of the car's occu- 

  

  

  
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pants had shot Allen in the shoulder as the 
young man tried to sprint to safety. 

Miller testified that Adams shot Richard- 
son after the officer began questioning Adams. 
But ballistics evidence showed that a long-bar- 
reled revolver fired the three fatal bullets, and 
several witnesses swore that they saw Miller 
running from the murder scene carrying a 
long-barreled weapon. Two witnesses said the 

  
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car's passenger fired those shots, and Miller 
admitted that he was the passenger. "t 

After Miller was convicted of murder 

Thursday morning, Assistant District Attorney 
Russell Parker reminded the jurors of testi-/ 

mony that Richardson had begged for his life, 

and said the death penalty was warranted be- 
cause Richardson’s killers kept firing at him. 
Miller, Parker said, was the triggerman. // 7 

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