Carolyn Bryant Donham: Will Emmett Till accuser face charges? A legal expert says it's possible under North Carolina law.
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager, Emmett Till, has found an unserved warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham. Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press, Donham's name --- identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document was discovered inside a file folder, last week.
Now in her 80s, Donham is most recently known to live in North Carolina. At the time of the slaying, she was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was kidnapped from a relative’s home, killed, and dumped into a river.
The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and two Till relatives: cousin Deborah Watts, head of the foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham.
Attorney Jason Keith with Keith Law & Associates said under North Carolina law that is possible.
"Actually, it actually can happen, the warrant was actually issued in Mississippi, and assuming that the warrant hasn't been dissolved and that is still active, the warrant actually should and could be served," Keith said.
He said the warrant does fall under the Mississippi governorship but, stale warrants usually stay alive until served on the individual mentioned in a case.
If North Carolina law enforcement wants to move forward with the warrant, Mississippi officials would have to start the process.
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