Caliph Washington with his attorneys, Orzell Billingsley and David Hood, in Bessemer, Alabama, after his release from the state prison in Montgomery.
Washington, who was charged with killing a Lipscomb police officer in 1957, was tried and convicted three times. He was finally released from prison on bond in March 1971, after his third conviction was overturned.
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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/110166 |