T THE TIME, Schadler and
his wife, both white, were Christm
shopping in downtown Benton
Harbor. They entered a Black ig
and record store where a figety,
nervous African American male
pulled a gun and fired ix times point
blank at Sch dler.
The assailant ran from the store
• and fled. Two years later, based on
testimony of convicted drug use ,
Wilbur Gillespie, Benton Harbor
police had Maurice Carter arrested in
his home town of Gary, Indiana.
Gillespie would retract his
accusation that Carter was the
assailant before the Carter trial
began. Gillespie explained he had
fingered Carter to make a deal for
himself in a pending drug charge.
Gillespie served two years for his
petjure4 affadavit. For Carter the
retraction came too late.
The Benton Harbor police
brought Carter into the city police
station, allowed the daily ne paper
to photograph and publish Carter's
picture on the top of page one the
next day, before a line up w held.
Officer Schadler who spent only
two days in the hospital after the
shooting, said at that time, he could
not identify hi assailant. Two years
la1er after Carter's picture was on
p geone, Scbadlerpicked Carter out
ofa line up.
THE WIG and record store clerk
- African American and the only
witness who spent any time with the
assailant close up--swears to this
day, Maurice Carter is not the man in
the shop who shot Schadler.
There was no gun, no physical
evidence of any kind to link Carter to
the crime. The entire case against
Carter was built on "eyewitness"
accounts. Most of the witnesses who
finge� Carter were white, none of
them up close to the assailant on the
day of the sbootlng,
Carter's court appointed attorney
never requested nor examined any
police reports, evidence or witnesses
prior, to trial. He went to court and
winged it
Had he examined the police
reports he would have discovered a
number of inconsistencies between
police reports and trial testimony.
This newspaper took up the
, Carter case and investigated it in
1981. The M,ichigan Citizen
investigation was prompted after
printing a letter to the editor wIi tten
by Carter from prison. In his letter,
Carter pleaded for public interest in
his cause and laid out some of the
inconsistencies urrounding trial
testimony.
Carter's letter parked a strong
reaction from one of the Benton
Harbor police officell responsible
for oliciting Wilbur Gillespie's
false identification of Carter. The
reaction was so strong, it got the
attention of the paper' editor. The
more the case was investigated, the
more it became obvious that Carter
bad been railroaded for a crime he
did not commit.
AFTER 1'IIISPAPERpubished -
a series of articles on the Carter case,
CNN news took up the story and
investigative reporter Larry Woods
did a one hour apedal on the Carter
case which aired in 1984.
A Iie detector teat paid for by
CNN an4 adminstered to Carter
con nu d rom A1
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The committee, chaired by Bard
Member Penny Bailer, tentatively
approved spending $1 million next
year for Dr. McGriff's propo 1, and
recommended the propo al to the
full board for approv I at the next
board meeting cbeduled for April
28.
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