Biography
Camden, New Jersey Black community anti-drug organizer serving a maximum 80-year sentence at Trenton State Prison after an all-white jury convicted him of murdering a white man; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.27 (1976) reports the Howard Ay Gibbs Defense Committee's charge that the conviction rested on forged testimony and destroyed transcripts.
The Howard Ay Gibbs Defense Committee’s October 1976 appeal described the Camden community anti-drug organizer as serving a maximum eighty-year sentence at Trenton State Prison. It alleged that evidence had been forged and court transcripts destroyed, and sought support for his defense. The account does not establish when the sentence began or when custody ended.
The Black Panther, October16,1976, volumeXV no.27, PDF page 6.
