Randolph Jennings

Race:Black

Era:1970s

State:North Carolina

Time Imprisoned:

6 Years

Support

Black Panther Party

Biography

Black Panther Party member and one of the 'High Point 4,' who ran a Free Breakfast program targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO before a 1971 police raid; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.30 (1976) reports he was released after serving more than six years of a 7-to-10-year sentence on a trumped-up assault-on-an-officer charge. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v15 no.30; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]

Case

Charges: Assault on an officer

Arrested: 1971

Sentence: One of the 'High Point 4,' who ran a Free Breakfast program targeted by COINTELPRO before a 1971 police raid; released after serving more than six years of a 7-to-10-year sentence on a trumped-up assault-on-an-officer charge. TIME SERVED IS RECORDED AS A FLOOR. The source says more than six years without saying how much more, so 72 months is entered as the least the custody can have been rather than as its length. The record previously counted none of it. TIME SERVED IS RECORDED AS A FLOOR. The source says more than six years without saying how much more, so 72 months is entered as the least the custody can have been rather than as its length. The record previously counted none of it. TIME SERVED IS RECORDED AS A FLOOR. The source says more than six years without saying how much more, so 72 months is entered as the least the custody can have been rather than as its length. The record previously counted none of it.

Convicted: Yes

Randolph Jennings

Biography

Case

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