Chesimard Loses Bid for Mistrial, Newspaper Article.

Title: Chesimard Loses Bid for Mistrial, Newspaper Article.
Date: 1977-03-04
Creator: Lawrence Nagy See all items with this value
Description: A newspaper article from The Star Ledger about the defense team for Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) being rejected in their motion to have a mistrial called after disturbances in the courtroom on March 2, 1977, during Shakur’s trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper. The article also discusses physical evidence presented by the prosecution.
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.4.49.36
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0828
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, 4 Mar. 1977, p. 14.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value
Relation: Trial Erupts in Turmoil, Newspaper Article.
Language: English

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