Janet Lockett, a 27-year-old Black woman from Elba, Alabama, was killed on September 4, 1989, in what the surviving court record describes as the violent end of a domestic dispute with her common-law husband, Randy Walton. According to the federal case that later grew out of her death, the trouble had begun earlier that day. Officer Michael Patrick of the Elba Police Department transported Walton to the home of Lockett’s parents, where she was staying. Walton was allowed to sit in the front se
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