Chuck Berry’s second trial for taking a minor across state lines for immoral purposes started in 1961.
The so-called “Apache trial” was over Berry’s relationship with Janice Escalante, an American Indian with roots in the Apache tribe. The two met at a bar near El Paso, Texas, in the late 1950s, and Escalante, who claimed to be 21, joined Berry and his traveling rock show on the road.
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