Stephen Bingham

Stephen Bingham
Born
Stephen Mitchell Bingham

(1942-04-23) April 23, 1942 (age 82)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationJ.D., 1969, University of California at Berkeley; Yale University
OccupationAttorney (retired)
Known forFugitive from justice (1971-1984) following an escape attempt at San Quentin State Prison by his client, George Jackson
Spouses
Gretchen Spreckels
(m. 1965; div. 1969)
Françoise Blusseau
(m. 1984)
Children1
Parent(s)Alfred Mitchell Bingham
Sylvia Doughty Knox Bingham

Stephen Mitchell Bingham (born April 23, 1942) is an inactive American legal services and civil rights attorney who was tried and acquitted in 1986 for his alleged role in Black Panther George Jackson's attempted escape fifteen years earlier from San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, in 1971.[1]

  1. ^ Kathleen Maclay (April 7, 1986). "Bingham trial starts Monday". Times-News. Hendersonville, North Carolina. AP. p. 9. Retrieved April 17, 2012.