Caliph Washington reading a Bible in a courtroom at the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, during his third trial for the 1957 death of a Lipscomb police officer.
His friends and family are standing behind him. By 1970, Washington had been tried and convicted twice for murder, but both decisions were overturned. Though tried and found guilty a third time in April 1970, he was finally released from prison in March 1971.
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| Format: | Electronic |
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/108638 |
| Summary: | His friends and family are standing behind him. By 1970, Washington had been tried and convicted twice for murder, but both decisions were overturned. Though tried and found guilty a third time in April 1970, he was finally released from prison in March 1971. |
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