deavours said, sad to say, none. [laughter] i swear it was the funniest trial i ever covered in my life as a reporter. deadly serious matter, but funny trial. sam bowers was representative of this guy on the right, travis buckley. he was not just a lawyer for the klan, he was a leader in the clan. he was actually indicted in the vernon dahmer firebombing at one point. billy roy pitts testified about this planning meeting that took place prior to the attack on vernon dahmer and his family. buckley asked him about it. he said mr. pitts, who all was at that planning meeting? i was there, sam bowers was there, deavours -- you were there. buckley is like, um. objection, your honor? [laughter] i have covered a lot of trials in my life and that was the only time a witness had implicated the defense lawyer. not surprisingly, sam bowers was convicted, august 21, 1998. the thing is, the hate that caused this, if we are really honest in this country, it has never really gone away. it wasn't just a few years ago that a young man

deavours is like, ok. by the way, deavours is wearing the same golf cap, which just cracks me up. deavours gets up and starts testifying. i look over at his lawyer about five minutes later, his lawyer was like zzzz. deavours kept right on testifying. i was in the clan. he tried to put a positive spin on it, like there is one. the clan was a benevolent organization, passing out fruit baskets to the needy at christmas. under cross-examination, the prosecutor got up and said, mr. nix, just how many fruit baskets did you pass out? sad to say,d, none. [laughter] i swear it was the funniest trial i ever covered in my life as a reporter. deadly serious matter, but funny trial. sam bowers was representative of this guy on the right, travis buckley. he was not just a lawyer for the clan, he was a leader in the clan. he was actually indicted in the vernon dahmer firebombing at one point. billy roy pitts testified about this planning meeting that took place prior to the attack on vernon dahmer and his family. buckley asked him about it. he said mr. pitts, who all was at that planning meeting