Friday, March 18, 2022

AL: Followup, Murder Charge Dismissed against Mercutio Southhall for Shooting of Arthur Hudson

The murder charge against a well-known Birmingham activist in the 2019 shooting death of a man at his family’s home has been dismissed under Alabama’s Stand Your Ground law.

Mercutio Southall, one of the initial leaders in the city’s Black Lives Matter movement, was initially charged with manslaughter in the June 4, 2019, slaying of 54-year-old Arthur Douglas Hudson. A grand jury in 2020 indicted the 37-year-old Southall on murder

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