Biography
Lewis Thomas Jackson was a Seattle Black Panther convicted with Willie Brazier Jr. in the 1969 Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank robbery case. Jackson was first released on bond on April 8, 1969, then returned to custody after bail was revoked on May 9. His appeal challenged the refusal of pretrial release and other trial rulings. The party listed him as “Louis Jackson” while he was held at Lompoc federal prison in 1970.
In May 13, 1970 testimony, Seattle detective Stanley K. Fridell reported Jackson's March 7, 1969 bank-robbery arrest and a November 24, 1969 conviction with a twenty-five-year sentence. The ensuing discussion distinguished Jackson's federal bank case from Buddy Yates's twenty-year grocery-store robbery sentence. The twenty-five years are the sentence reported to the committee, not a calculation of time actually served.
