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H. Rap Brown, former secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), goes on trial on charges of robbery, attempted murder, and possession of an illegal weapon.
1972 (Nov 27)
H. Rap Brown, former secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), went on trial on charges of robbery, attempted murder, and possession of an illegal weapon. There was speculation, however, that the trial might be further delayed by legal arguments over the effect of a magazine article dealing with one of the arresting officers. Brown was arrested after a New York robbery on October 16, 1971. The trial finally got under way after Brown's lawyers, William Kuntsler and Howard Moore, Jr., both famed civil liberties attorneys, failed in an effort to have the case transferred to the federal courts.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.