Jayma Abdoo

Released
Date of birth:1951
Date of death:August 2006
Age:55† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1970s
State:New Jersey
Support
Anti-War Camden 28 Catholic Left
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Biography

Jayma A. Abdoo (1951 – August 2006) was the youngest documented member of the Camden 28, twenty at the 1971 indictment. A graduate of Immaculate Heart Academy in Bergen County, she had worked in Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign and was a children's librarian. She was severed from the main trial and her charges were dismissed after the May 1973 acquittals. She later graduated with honors from Columbia University and became an assistant dean at Barnard College. She died of cancer in August 2006.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: August 1971
Incarcerated: August 1971
Sentence: Never tried. Severed from the seventeen-defendant trial; the charges were dismissed after the jury acquitted all seventeen on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy; individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — severed from the main trial; charges dismissed after the May 20, 1973 acquittals

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