By Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 6, 2018; Republished on October 19, 2023 Former Talladega, Alabama police lieutenant Jimmy Ray Hurst is now a 90-year-old inmate in the Alabama prison system. Hurst was the first police murder case I handled as a special prosecutor for the state of Alabama. A FLASHBACK THURSDAY STORY -- My First Police Murder Case On June 4, 1973, Jimmy Ray Hurst, a Lieutenant in the Talladega, Alabama Police Department, asked Beatrice L

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 6, 2018 On June 4, 1973, Jimmy Ray Hurst, a Lieutenant in the Talladega, Alabama...