Biography
25-year-old Black Marine sergeant sentenced to natural life by a majority-white Cordele, Georgia jury for the shooting deaths of a state trooper and a policeman after a trooper attacked him, his wife and baby; The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.12 (1975) reports he was denied defense funds and that the Southern Poverty Law Center was appealing. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v14 no.12; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]
