
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, October 17, 1993                   TAG: 9310170052
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: D-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short

BIBLE READING VOIDS VERDICT, JUDGE RULES

A religious group leader convicted of having sex with a teen-age follower won a new trial because a juror read a Bible passage about circumcision aloud during deliberations.

Circuit Judge Virginia Gay Broome, who threw out the conviction of Clarence "Brother Bill" Williams, ruled that "consulting a Bible during jury deliberations breaches the separation of church and state guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution."

- Associated Press

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