A reputed Ku Klux Klansman whose conviction was tossed out last week in the abductions of two black teenagers slain in 1964 is a flight risk and should remain in prison while the government considers appealing the ruling, federal prosecutors argued Tuesday.
James Ford Seale, 73, was convicted in June 2007 and sentenced to three life terms on federal kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the abductions, beatings and slayings of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. He had spent just over a year in a federal prison in Indiana when, on Sept. 9, a three-judge panel of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his conviction.
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