SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) Jurors were urged Monday (April 11) to weigh the overwhelming evidence against a white man who is charged with a federal hate crime for allegedly torching a black church on the evening of President Obama's election.
Michael F. Jacques is the only one of three accomplices to stand trial for the Nov. 5, 2008 fire that destroyed the Macedonia Church of God in Christ.
"The time has come to hold him accountable," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Lee Ndumele said in...
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