Bobby DeLaughter was hailed as hero after convicting the killer of Medgar Evers
DeLaughter is headed to prison after pleading guilty in a corruption probe
"The man has now been destroyed," says Medgar Evers' brother
DeLaughter's attorney: "The penalty he's paying is enormous
Bobby DeLaughter -- the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case -- is himself now headed to prison.
It was DeLaughter's dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights cold cases.
DeLaughter became an instant hero of the civil rights movement. Alec Baldwin portrayed him in the 1996 movie, "Ghosts of Mississippi," and his closing statement was once dubbed one of the greatest closing arguments in modern law.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/04/mississippi.medgar.evers.prosecutor/index.html
Another Storied peace maker goes down.... its really sad to see so many good men and women get caught up in the negative activities....
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