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A former University of Mississippi student plead guilty today to placing a noose on the University of Mississippi’s statue of its first black student.
Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and plead guilty to a criminal charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford.
Edenfield had been scheduled to plead guilty in September, but Mills delayed that court date for reasons that haven’t been publicly explained.
The filing doesn’t indicate what charge Edenfield faces. People typically agree to waive indictment and plead guilty in federal court as part of a plea bargain. Edenfield’s lawyer hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
A noose and a former Georgia state flag with a Confederate battle emblem were placed on the Ole Miss statue of James Meredith. He integrated the university in 1962 amid rioting that was suppressed by federal troops.
Prosecutors said in June that another former student, Graeme Phillip Harris, hatched the plan to place the noose and flag on the statue after a night of drinking with Edenfield and a third freshman in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on campus.
Harris pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of threatening force to intimidate African-American students and employees at the university after prosecutors agreed to drop a stiffer felony charge in exchange. His lawyer argued Harris didn’t deserve prison, saying he’d written a letter of apology to Meredith after falling under the influence of racist traditions.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/24/frat-boy-placed-noose-on-statue-of-schools-first-black-student/
