A federal appeals court plans to rehear arguments on unsealing the transcripts from grand jury proceedings in the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago.
A white mob killed the four sharecroppers at Moore’s Ford Bridge in July 1946.
FBI agents identified dozens of possible suspects, but a federal grand jury failed to indict anyone.
A federal judge in 2017 granted a request from historian Anthony Pitch to unseal the transcripts. But the government appealed, citing the secrecy of grand jury proceedings.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February affirmed the lower court order. But a new order issued Tuesday tosses out that ruling and says the case will be reheard by the full 11th Circuit.
