Great Pool Jump - Softcover

Randy Battle, Dennis Roberts, Curtis L. Williams

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ISBN 10: 098441391X ISBN 13: 9780984413911

Publisher: YouArePerfect Press, 2010

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Criminal defense Dennis Roberts, who now practices in Oakland, California, tells of his time in the civil rights movement and his internship with C.B. King, one of America's greatest lawyers-that-you-have-never-heard-of. In 1963, King was the only black attorney in southwest Georgia, and one of only three in the entire state. Preface by Dennis Roberts: Back in the day I worked with a brilliant black lawyer in southwest Georgia named C. B. King. This was in the summer of 1963 a then after graduating law school in 1964-66. We worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC pronounced Snick). One of the SNCC people who worked with us was a Harvard dropout named Peter de Lissovoy who took stories that I wrote, that he wrote, and that a couple of other SNCC folks and a local gangbanger who joined the Movement wrote. He has put them together in a very interesting book called The Great Pool Jump. The title story is about how Albany, GA sold the town swimming pool to a local newspaper editor so it became a private pool and didn't let black people swim there. Anyhow one day about 3 or 4 local black guys showed up, jumped the fence, watched all the little white children jump out of the pool, swam to the other end and got away before the cops arrived. The other stories are also about Albany and C.B.King.. King was a master of the lost art of exploratory cross-examination. In a rape case, where the black defendant had allegedly used a knife to hold his white victim at bay, King asked the complaining witness what the accused had done with the knife while he was taking off his clothes. The witness replied, "I held it for him." Case dismissed. In another case, King was able to establish during a dramatic and embarrassing (for the prosecution) cross that a white racist witness was illiterate and had lied when he swore in the jurat of his affidavit that had read it and that its contents were true.

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