Caliph Washington talking with friends and family members at the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, during his third trial for the 1957 death of a Lipscomb police officer.
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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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/108704 |