Retired State Trooper Surrenders In Civil-Rights Era Slaying
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Retired State Trooper Surrenders In Civil-Rights Era Slaying Save Email Print
Posted: 1:30 PM May 10, 2007
 Last Updated: 1:17 PM May 10, 2007
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(May 10, 2007)--A retired Alabama state trooper who was indicted in connection with a civil rights-era slaying has turned himself in.

The lawyer for 73-year-old James Fowler says his client insists he did nothing wrong.

Defense attorney George Beck says the indictment is an attempt to rewrite history about a man he says was protecting himself and fellow troopers.

Fowler shot Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion during a 1965 demonstration that turned into a club-swinging melee.

The shooting became the catalyst for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965 and passage of the Voting Rights Act.

A racially diverse Perry County grand jury returned the indictment against Fowler, who arrived at the courthouse today to face the charge.

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