Legal Opinion
In re Pitch
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided August 18, 2017No. MISCELLANEOUS NO. 5:14-MC-2 (MTT)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MARC T. TREADWELL, US District Judge
This matter involves a federal grand jury’s investigation into what has been described as the last mass lynching in the United States.1 Both the murders and the grand jury investigation took place in 1946. Anthony S. Pitch asks the Court to unseal the grand jury’s records. For the following reasons, the petition is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
Pitch is a historian researching the July 25, 1946 murder of four African-Americans in Walton County, Georgiy. The incident is commonly known as the Moore’s Ford lynching. The victims, two married couples, were dragged…
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