What sort of town was Greenwood, South Carolina in the early 1980s? It was the kind of place where a prominent white man could get away with shooting and killing a black man who walked across his property at night. When the local chief prosecutor, William T. Jones, brought the case before a grand jury, he was not look ing for an indictment. Surely anyone would have behaved the same way under the circumstances, he argued.
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机译：1980年代初，南卡罗来纳州的格林伍德是什么样的城镇？在那种地方，一个杰出的白人可以逃脱射击并杀死一个晚上穿过他的财产的黑人。当当地首席检察官威廉·T·琼斯（William T. Jones）将案件提交大陪审团审理时，他并不希望提出起诉。他认为，在这种情况下，肯定会有任何人表现出同样的行为。
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