Alton Maddox Jr., a New York defense lawyer who rose to prominence amid some of the most racially charged cases of the 1980s, died April 23 at a nursing facility in the Bronx. He was 77.
— became the core of Brawley’s legal team. They quickly turned her claims into a racial reckoning, bringing Brawley to packed news conferences and racking up donations and support from celebrities such as boxing promoter Don King, who pledged $100,000 for Brawley’s education. The Economist dubbed Mr. Maddox and his colleagues the “Tawana trio.”
There was still more fallout. The prosecutor Pagones was awarded a $345,000 judgment in a defamation suit against Mr. Maddox, Sharpton and Mason in 2000. Mr. Maddox’s $95,000Mr. Maddox was out of the courtroom, but still gave orations as if trying to sway a jury. In speaking engagements, he portrayed the United States as a losing proposition for Blacks unless they helped each other. Other times, he looked back with a flash of anger.a New York State panel on attorney discipline in 2015.
He graduated from Howard University in 1967. Soon after returning to Georgia, he said, he was beaten by police officers in a dispute over a parking space and was arrested. He received his lawAfter moving to New York, he worked at Harlem Legal Services and then led a juvenile justice project for the National Conference of Black Lawyers. He started his own law practice in 1981.in police custody in 1983 after being detained for allegedly writing graffiti on a subway station wall.
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