The Law: A Motive in a Diary?

Was Angela Davis, avowed Communist and former instructor in philosophy at U.C.L.A., an integral part of the wild and bloody struggle to rescue the Soledad Brothers?

For nearly two months now Prosecutor Albert Harris Jr. has been trying to persuade a jury that Miss Davis provided the guns and is just as guilty as if she had pulled a trigger. Harris does not claim that he can prove Miss Davis' involvement directly. Instead, he is trying to provide the classic ingredients of a successful prosecution based on circumstantial evidence: that she wanted to commit the crime (motive), that she could have done...

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