Truly an unfortunate instance of a mixture of poor accusations and even fouler profiling, Angela Davis was arrested and put on trial some time after in February of 1972 in California. The entire mess aroused in a completely different court hearing involving the attempted interruption / bailing out known murderer Johnathon Jackson. A younger brother to one of three radical black inmates, the brother being George Jackson, the entire case was traced back to Angela Davis, the lover of George Jackson. Her disappearance shortly after Johnathon's failed attempt of escape only hardened this false accusation, and Davis was arrested on the charges of murder and conspiracy. But Davis knew she was innocent, and she played her cards right. Defending herself admirably, she testified that she virtually had no connection to the case involving John Jackson simply because she was intimate with his older brother. Furthermore, none of the prosecutions chief witnesses were able to produce solid evidence of any type of involvement she may have had in the ordeal; inevitably, she was acquitted of her charges.This is one of the less cases that favors the particular ability of the law to judge their criminals; they believed that Davis was a suspect not primarily for her disappearance, but due to her communist sympathies and, most likely, to her being African American. The unfortunate mixture of race and beliefs lead to a poor profiling and, as a result, the court had little to go with as far as actual facts go with the case. However, despite the fact that her jury was all white, her case was presented with enough solid evidence that there was no possible way that Davis was responsible for orchestrating the escape attempt whatsoever; reason prevailed in a case that typically wouldn't have been given much thought if a defendant of Davis' unfortunate stature was unable to defend herself.
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