Biography
Carol Hill was a Black grand-jury resister and paralegal who worked for William Kunstler on Christopher King's defense. A federal appeals court upheld her civil-contempt confinement for refusing testimony and identifying exemplars before a Massachusetts grand jury. Contemporary movement reporting says she was released in 1986 after ten months, when the judge found continued imprisonment punitive rather than coercive.
Grand-jury confinement and release
The First Circuit's March 11, 1986 opinion identifies Hill as William Kunstler's paralegal on Christopher King's defense and affirms the civil-contempt confinement underlying an appeal submitted October 11, 1985. Death to the Klan!, Summer 1986, page 12 reports her release after ten months following a finding that continued confinement would be punitive. Taken together, these records establish admission in 1985 and release in 1986, but not exact days or months. The admission year is a bounded inference from the documented ten-month stay ending in 1986 and her existing confinement in October 1985; January 1 is only a year-storage placeholder. The directory's MCC New York listing is preserved, not proof that she was prosecuted for Black Liberation Army activity.
Sources: In re Grand Jury Proceedings, Appeal of Carol Hill, 786 F.2d 3; Death to the Klan!, Summer 1986, p. 12; Breakthrough, Spring 1986 directory.
