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Hakim, born 36 years ago in St. Louis, has spent almost half his life in the joint. In 1951 he, or more precisely. Albert Bradford, was incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to serve three concurrent life sentences for robbery and two charges of rape. He was 16 years...
...December of 1951, Bradford, then 16, and a 15-year-old black were arrested and charged with robbery. An indictment for rape was also added against Bradford...
Hakim admits the validity of the robbery charge. He also acknowledges that the rape was committed, but denies that he did it. "Here was the thing. When I was getting the dough, this cat that was with me, Teddy, took the woman in the back, you know. I told him to take the woman in the back, tie her up and gag her so we could get away, you know, He, took her in the back and screwed her. Okay, I come back then to see what he's spending so much time in. He was into his thing...
When informed that he was being charged with the rape. "I tried to get the point across that not only was I not interested in raping. I wasn't interested in no sex--period." However, Bradford never got a chance to tell this to a jury. His attorney, a public defender, "convinced my parents to get me to plead guilty to clean the books because, he said, if you clean the books they'll give you a break." Despite his own misgivings. Bradford went along...
...which he expected to get a 20 year sentence. The public defender had assured him that with good conduct he would be out in three. However, when Bradford appeared in court for sentencing, he was slapped with three concurrent life sentences: one for the robbery, one for the rape of a white woman that had happened during the robbery, and one for a rape that had occurred almost half a year before...