Jury Selection Called &#039;Superficial,&#039; Newspaper Article.

Title: Jury Selection Called 'Superficial,' Newspaper Article.
Date: 1977-01-20
Creator: Unknown See all items with this value
Description: A newspaper article from The News Tribune about defense attorneys for Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard), who was on trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper, filing a complaint claiming that the jury selection in her murder trial is biased toward the prosecution. Shakur was convicted in 1977 of the killing and escaped prison in 1979.
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.4.49.15
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0807
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 News Tribune, 20 Jan. 1977.
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