"Mississippi Burning" case sentence....

[Sasq]

as a ballpark, I would say Umf is implying as no court had convicted a white man of killing a black man at that point in time, it would also have been unlikely to find juriors that would convict someone for killing white men, who were 'black sympathisers' either.

but i could be wrong

[Umfriend]

but i could be wrong

That's a negative and that ain't cause you're the site administrator.

[Wombat]

Even if this is so, he still killed (or conspired to kill) two white people too.

Sorry, should have said "or civil rights workers." If they'd tried him back then, he would have walked, and double jeopardy would have protected him. It was better to wait.