Joan Little
Female, Person
1953 –
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Who is Joan Little?
Joan Little is an African-American woman whose trial for the 1974 murder of a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina, became a cause célèbre of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-death penalty movements. Little was the first woman in United States history to be acquitted using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault. Her case also has become classic in legal circles as a pioneering instance of the application of scientific jury selection.
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- Born
- 1953
North Carolina - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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