Looking Black On Today In 1972, Angela Davis Was Acquitted By All White Jury In San Jose
Angela Yvonne Davis, a black militant, former philosophy professor at the University of California, and self-proclaimed communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California.
In October 1970, Davis was arrested in New York City in connection with a shootout that occurred on August 7 in a San Raphael, California, courtroom. She was accused of supplying weapons to Jonathan Jackson, who burst into the courtroom in a bid to free inmates on trial there and take hostages whom he hoped to exchange for his brother George, a black radical imprisoned at San Quentin Prison. In the subsequent shoot-out with police, Jonathan Jackson was killed along with Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates.
Davis, who had championed the cause of black prisoners and was friends with George Jackson, was indicted in the crime but went into hiding. One of the Federal Bureau of Investigations most wanted criminals, she was apprehended only two months later. Her trial began in March 1972 and drew international attention because of the weakness of the prosecutions case and obvious political nature of the proceedings. In June 1972, she was acquitted of all charges.
After leaving the criminal justice system, she returned to teaching and writing and in 1980 was the
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Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)I always think about that when I'm there.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)She'd have the banksters soiling their shorts in about two seconds.
-- Mal
Chan790
(20,176 posts)The article says she's a professor of philosophy and nothing about having a JD or being a member of the bar.
She would absolutely have them terrified though.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)But I have no facts on that one.
-- Mal
Chan790
(20,176 posts)There is no requirement that the US AG be an attorney or a member of the bar...it is assumed however that Congress would not confirm a non-attorney to the position.
There's also no requirement that a SCOTUS justice be a judge or even have any legal education.