Ruchell magee biography

          Ruchell Cinque Magee ....

          Ruchell Magee was born an only child on March 17, in the small town of Franklinton, Louisiana.

        1. Ruchell Magee was born an only child on March 17, in the small town of Franklinton, Louisiana.
        2. Ruchell “Cinqué” Magee is the longest held political prisoner in the United States.
        3. Ruchell Cinque Magee .
        4. Ruchell Magee was born in In , Magee was convicted of aggravated kidnapping over a dispute involving $10 of marijuana.
        5. Incarcerated for more than sixty years, politicized in prison, Magee self-identified as a political prisoner railroaded by law into captivity.

          6. Ruchell Magee

          American criminal (1939–2023)

          Ruchell Cinque Magee (born Ruchell Lewis; 17 March 1939 – October 17, 2023) was an American man who spent most of his life in prison.[2] He pled guilty to aggravated kidnapping in the August 7, 1970 Marin County Civic Center courthouse attacks in San Rafael, California.

          Judge Harold Haley was killed in that attack, as were all of those involved in taking him and other hostages from the courthouse, with the exception of Magee—the only black survivor of the event.

          Born in rural Louisiana, when he was 16, Magee was convicted in 1955 of attempted rape of a 22-year-old woman after a one-day trial, and sentenced to hard labor.

          Paroled in 1962, he moved to Los Angeles and was convicted in 1963 of kidnapping and robbery in an incident with his cousin that court records say involved a loaded gun, a moving car that had been reported stolen, and a $10 marijuana deal.

          Because of the prior rape conviction, he was sentenced to life i