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  • Georgia high court upholds conviction of Jamil Al-Amin, formerly 1960s militant H. Rap Brown

    05/24/2004 8:10:17 PM PDT · by Apollo · 12 replies · 164+ views
    MSNBC ^ | May 24, 2004
    Jamil Al-Amin, the former 1960s black militant once known as H. Rap Brown, lost a bid in the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday to overturn his conviction for the shooting death of a sheriff's deputy four years ago. In an unanimous decision, the state's highest appeals court said it found no reversible error in the trial that led to his conviction. Al-Amin was convicted in 2002 of the March 16, 2000, shooting death of Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Ricky Kinchen, 38. He was sentenced to life without parole. Kinchen was killed and his partner, Deputy Aldranon English, was wounded when...