. >> josephus anderson will go on trial in mobile during the week of march 15th through 20th, 1981. >day the 16th, the trial of josephus anderson started in the mobile county courthouse. >> anderson was accused of killing a white police officer in birmingham. his trial was moved to mobile because of the publicity the case received in birmingham. >> the composition of the jury is 11 black people and one white person. so it was a topic of educated speculation, shall we say, that mr. anderson would either be acquitted or the case would result in a mistrial. >> the joseph anderson trial started the week before michael was, you know, killed, and i watched the trial the whole week. >> the fifth day of the trial, the case went to the jury. that evening, all of these people congregated on herndon avenue and waited to see what the 10:00 news was gonna report. >> the 12 jurors couldn't reach agreement according to the foreman. judge joseph hocklander said he was forced to declare a mistrial in the five-day-old case. >> the news came on and we was watching it, and i saw him coming out the courtr

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