Sheriff Sorry for Misinterpreting Order
Posted on: Thursday, 4 December 2003, 06:00 CST
The Wayne County sheriff has apologized for misinterpreting a judge's order that he originally said forced him to send deputies to Wal-Mart to find potential jurors.
The order simply required Sheriff Carey Winders to send deputies to a public place. Their search at the discount store on Nov. 26 - the day before Thanksgiving - resulted in confrontations with people shopping for Christmas gifts.
"I will accept the responsibility for them going there," Winder said Tuesday. "But we would've had to go to Target, the mall or a public place, like the library, to get them. The bottom line is that he didn't say for us to go to Wal-Mart but to a public place."
"I apologize to the judge," the sheriff said.
Superior Court Judge Ripley Rand issued the order when not enough potential jurors could be found for a murder trial. Deputies found 50 candidates at Wal-Mart, and at least one of them was seated for the trial, which began Tuesday.
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