Caliph Washington at the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, after being released on bond from the county jail.
He is being interviewed by a journalist. Washington was charged with killing a Lipscomb police officer in 1957. By 1970, he had been tried and convicted twice, but both decisions were overturned. Though tried and found guilty a third time in April 1970, he was finally released from prison in March 1...
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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/108698 |
| Summary: | He is being interviewed by a journalist. Washington was charged with killing a Lipscomb police officer in 1957. By 1970, he had been tried and convicted twice, 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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