of his time with blacks. His relations with African-Americans were inconsistent, at best. He routinely bought ''dates" with black prostitutes. His hateful mind and his egotistic, childish need to impress others drew him to anyone he considered inferior to himselfblacks, slow-witted whites, and smaller people, especially women.
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Later during the evening of the racial confrontation in Rosebud, the black teenagers who had been accosted by McDuff, accompanied by one of their fathers, contacted the Justice of the Peace, Judge Ellen Roberts. The father was concerned for the safety of the boys, but they drew up a complaint against McDuff anyway. Interestingly, the next day, Sheriff Larry Pamplin called Judge Roberts and asked that she drop her complaint in favor of a County Court Complaint and Warrant. Judge Roberts agreed to the request and noted it on her original complaint on July 12, 1990. The parole office issued an emergency warrant the next day. 12
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There is no indication that the Falls County Sheriff's Department took action or made a significant effort to arrest McDuff. TDCJ records suggest that he was arrested as a parole violator for making a terroristic threat on July 18. On that day, he was arrested by Bell County Sheriff's deputies during a visit to the parole office in Temple and taken directly to the Bell County Jail. Falls County Sheriff Larry Pamplin apparently preferred to have Bell County house McDuff. The Falls County Jail was secure enough, but it had only sixteen cells. According to a Bell County Sheriff's Office memo, Pamplin agreed to have McDuff held there for the parole hearing. While McDuff was in the Bell County Jail, Thomas Sehon, Falls County District Attorney, wrote a letter to TDCJ in which he stated that, "The above [McDuff] is probably the most extraordinarily violent criminal to set foot in Falls County, Texas. 13
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McDuff was a seventeen-year-old child in a forty-four-year-old body. His silliness and immaturity knew no bounds. Only two days before his arrest in Temple, he had wrecked yet another car, causing injuries to his sixteen-year-old nephew. 14
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On September 11, 1990, at 9:35 A.M. , an Administrative Release Revocation Hearing on Kenneth's parole took place at the Bell County Jail. Listed as participants were McDuff, Gary Jacksonidentified as Kenneth's pro bono attorneyMichael Hull, the Hearing Officer, Robert McBee (the Rosebud band member), two observers, and three parole officers. Even though the offense had occurred in Rosebud, in Falls County, and only one month earlier the Falls County District Attorney described
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