Conviction of 1960s Activist Upheld
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former 1960s black-power activist once known as H. Rap Brown, lost a bid in the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for the shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy four years ago.
In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest appeals court said in Atlanta that it found no reversible error in the trial that led to his conviction. Al-Amin, 60, was convicted in 2002 of the March 16, 2000, shooting death of Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Kinchen, 38. He was sentenced to life without parole.
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