After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Marilyn Bardsley

Author:Marilyn Bardsley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2011-07-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: The Prosecution

George E. Oliver (portrait)

Chatham Superior Court Judge George E. Oliver presided over three of Jim’s four trials. In the first trial, a jury of six men and six women were selected on January 25, 1982. Eleven were white and one woman was black. They were essentially typical middle-class people.

Leading the prosecution team was Chatham County’s new district attorney, Spencer Lawton Jr. Lawton was a soft-spoken, serious young man from a respected old Savannah family. Always a victim’s advocate, Lawton was known for his compassion for the poor. He had unseated the Ryan family, which had enjoyed a 30-year hold on the D.A.’s office. Joe Ryan had handed the office down to his son Andrew J. Ryan III, who had just completed his first term. Andrew was expected to win another term when Lawton jumped into the Democratic primary race. Lawton’s reputation as a man of principle earned him significant support from the black community, which helped him win the subsequent Democratic runoff and the race against the Republican candidate.

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