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THE LITERARY EYE; Death Row
1990
Overview
I recently met him, and he said, call me Shabaka. Shabaka - born Joseph Green Brown in Charleston, S.C. - had been convicted for the 1973 murder, robbery and rape of a Tampa white woman. ''Shabaka,'' a name he took before going to prison, means ''uncompromising'' in Swahili. As it happened, a juror at his trial had sent an affidavit to Shabaka's minister, asserting that a jury member had advocated the chair for Shabaka, a former Black Panther, because ''that nigger's been nothing but trouble since he came down here, and he'll be trouble until we get him off the streets.'' In the years that followed, ugly details came to light: During the first trial, the prosecutor had concealed F.B.I. evidence showing that the fatal bullet could not have been fired from Shabaka's gun. Shabaka based his new claim on this fact and on his assertion that the prosecutor had allowed a crucial witness to lie while also misleading the jury in his closing argument.
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New York Times Company
