Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 6 P40 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 378 LIVERY OF SEISIN Moton covered with Liuzzo s blood feigned death and then ran three miles before finding safety with other civil rights workers. It took the FBI eight hours to arrest three suspects all Klan members. Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. a 34-year-old Klan member who had been passing information to the FBI for five years was riding with three others in the car from which the fatal shots were fired. Immediately the state of Alabama indicted the other three men on first-degree murder charges. Rowe was given immunity and put in protective custody in return for testifying against Eugene Thomas age 43 William Orville Eaton age 41 and Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. age 21. According to Rowe s subsequent testimony the men had received instructions from Klan leaders to punish one of the marchers. A trial on state charges in May 1965 ended in a mistrial. However a subsequent federal trial based on a conspiracy to violate Luizzo s civil rights brought guilty verdicts. Each of the defendants was sentenced to ten years. A subsequent appeal failed. In 1979 the Liuzzo family filed a 2 million lawsuit against the FBI. The suit accused the bureau of negligence in its hiring training and supervision of Rowe. The informant it alleged was a loose gun who had actively participated in the murder. . district judge Charles Joiner heard the trial without a jury and on May 30 1983 found that Rowe did not shoot Liuzzo. He further ruled that the government was not responsible for her death. In 1982 the Detroit city council honored Liuzzo for her contributions to the struggle for civil and human rights. In June 1982 a mayoral proclamation made June 1-8 viola liuzzo commemoration Week. other memorials followed. in 1985 nearly 100 marchers led by the Reverend Joseph Lowery president of the scLc retraced the historic selma-to-Montgomery march and laid a wreath at the site where she was murdered. There along . Route 80 beside a swampy stretch stands a simple stone marker dedicated in 1991 by .
