The State - News from May 7, 1986

Twice-convicted Booker T. Hillery Jr. was ordered by a Municipal Court judge in Hanford to stand trial once again for the 1962 murder of a teen-age girl. Hillery, now 54, has had two death sentences in the case overturned because of legal technicalities. He won a new trial when the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that he was improperly indicted because blacks were systematically excluded from the Kings County Grand Jury. Hillery is black. The body of Marlene Miller, 15, stabbed to death with sewing scissors, was found in a canal near her house.