“We’re all black,” Robinson’s sister, Donna Washington, told the Times-Dispatch. “This has nothing to do with the Robert E. Lee portrait sitting in the courtroom.”
A
Virginia man is requesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee portrait from
the courtroom in which he is facing trial in a capital murder case.
Attorneys for Darcel Nathaniel Murphy filed a motion requesting the removal of the portrait and other Confederate memorabilia, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The
motion, filed Monday, argues that Murphy’s trial should not be held in a
courtroom with “images that could be interpreted as glorifying,
memorializing, or otherwise endorsing the efforts of those who fought on
behalf of the Confederate cause or its principles.”
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