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Grand jury records on mass lynching once again before court

Arguments to be reheard on 70-year-old case

In a Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Tyrone Brooks, a veteran civil rights activist, stands behind the tombstone of Mae Murray Dorsey who was killed in a 1946 lynching by a white mob in Monroe, Ga. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said Tuesday, June 4, 2019 that a majority of its judges voted to rehear the case involving the brazen killing of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey. - photo by Associated Press

lynching — In a Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Tyrone Brooks, a veteran civil rights activist, stands behind the tombstone of Mae Murray Dorsey who was killed in a 1946 lynching by a white mob in Monroe, Ga. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said Tuesday, June 4, 2019 that a majority of its judges voted to rehear the case involving the brazen killing of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey. - photo by Associated Press

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court plans to rehear arguments on unsealing the transcripts from grand jury proceedings in the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago.

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