Biography
John L. Scott was a member of the Black Panther Party and the eighth person indicted over the April 6, 1968 West Oakland gun battle in which 17-year-old Bobby Hutton was killed. Co-defendant Terry Cotton recalled that "Donnell [Lankford], John L. Scott and I were the first to be arrested." He was charged with the group on two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The most thinly documented of the eight — absent even from the Party's own February 1970 prisoner roster — he has no individually recorded trial disposition.
The Black Panther identified these incarcerated defendants as awaiting trial arising from the April 6, 1968 Oakland shootout. It reported two attempted-murder and two assault counts. Its reference to one-to-fifteen-year exposure on each count is a possible penalty, not a sentence already imposed. The paper alleged political persecution of the Panthers. The Black Panther, February 13, 1971, original PDF page 9. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/06%20no%203%201-20%20feb%2013%201971.pdf#page=9
