Chesimard Attorneys Hired Ballistics Expert, Newspaper Article.

Title: Chesimard Attorneys Hired Ballistics Expert, Newspaper Article.
Date: 1977-03-11
Creator: Sue Emmons
Description: A newspaper article from The News Tribune about testimony on ballistics and gunshot trajectories given by two different expert witnesses in the trial of Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) for the 1973 killing of a state trooper. The judge in the case barred the jury from learning that one of the experts was hired by the defense.
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: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.48
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0840
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, 11 Mar. 1977, p. 3.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson