Chesimard Refused Bid to Suppress Evidence, Newspaper Article.

Title: Chesimard Refused Bid to Suppress Evidence, Newspaper Article.
Date: 1976-04-15
Creator: Lawrence Nagy See all items with this value
Description: A newspaper article from the Star Ledger about the defense team in Assata Shakur's (JoAnne Chesimard) trial being denied a motion to suppress evidence found in the car after the May 1973 shootout. Shakur was convicted in 1977 of killing the state trooper during a shootout, escaped prison in 1979, and is still wanted by the FBI.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Law See all items with this value; Justice See all items with this value; Black power See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black Panther Party (BPP); Prison; Black nationalism
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper
Format: PDF
HBCU Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.4
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0796
Rights: All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.
Contributing Institution: Jackson State University
Source: Originally published in The Star Ledger, 15 Apr. 1976.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value
Language: English

Item sets: Ephemera & Objects; Women in the Movement Collection; Black Liberation Army (BLA) Collection; Jackson State University Collections