> Al-Amin camp finds conflicts >Joshua B. Good - Staff >Wednesday, November 15, 2000 > >Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin hopes the color of his eyes and the words of a dying > man will set him free. >Al-Amin, the former 1960s radical once known as H. Rap Brown, is accused of >fatally shooting a Fulton County sheriff's deputy and wounding another in > an exchange of gunfire March 16. >Al-Amin's defense attorney found quotes from both deputies in police > evidence that help Al-Amin. The quotes were cited in two of 84 pretrial > pleadings filed in court this week. >The survivor, Deputy Aldranon English, was adamant that the gunman's eyes > were gray, according to one pretrial motion. >"My mom always told me, 'Look a man in his eye, always look a man in his > eyes,' " English is quoted as saying. "So I remember 'cause I was looking > at him in his eyes. . . . I remember them (being) gray eyes." >Al-Amin's eyes are dark brown, not gray. >Before dying, Deputy Ricky Kinchen told fellow deputies: "I shot him. I > know I shot him," according to one defense motion. Al-Amin was arrested >March 20 and he was not injured. >In an interview before Al-Amin's arrest, English claimed he, too, had shot > the suspect. >Police found a blood trail at the scene leading to an abandoned house and > received reports that night of a wounded man trying to flag down a ride > five blocks away. Police and prosecutors have not explained the blood trail > or the wounded man. On Tuesday, defense lawyers and prosecutors would not > comment. >English identified Al-Amin as the shooter. Both deputies went to Atlanta's > West End neighborhood to arrest Al-Amin on warrants. >The discrepancies about eye color and the killer being wounded appear to be > a big part of Al-Amin's defense. >Al-Amin's lawyer, Jack Martin, wants the judge to prevent English from >identifying Al-Amin as the gunman in court because the discrepancy about > the eye color and the fact Al-Amin was not wounded suggest "the strong > likelihood of a misidentification," one motion reads. > >ON THE WEB: Discuss the case against Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: > www.accessatlanta.com/community/yourtown/forum/fulton.html >==========================================>
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