Biography
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the September 1970 robbery at Luke’s Grocery in Leon County and the killing of deputy Thomas Revels. The contemporaneous defense report described police harassment of their organizing and actual jail custody and mistreatment. Frederick was convicted with Keaton and received a life sentence. His conviction and sentence were overturned. The 1973 prosecutor’s memorandum said ending the murder prosecution would have the effect of releasing him; a separate actual physical release date has not been established.
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the September 1970 robbery at Luke’s Grocery in Leon County and the killing of deputy Thomas Revels. The contemporaneous defense report described police harassment of their organizing and actual jail custody and mistreatment. Frederick was convicted with Keaton and received a life sentence. His conviction and sentence were overturned. The 1973 prosecutor’s memorandum said ending the murder prosecution would have the effect of releasing him; a separate actual physical release date has not been established.
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