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0-684-80699-1, 1996
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*   At 4:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, for example, a special fourteen-man
*   squad of Chicago police officers raided a house used by the Black
*   Panther Party. During the shoot-first-ask-questions-later raid, police
*   fired at least ninety-eight rounds into the apartment. Illinois chairman
*   Fred Hampton and Peoria chairman Mark Clark were killed.
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*   An FBI informant gave the bureau specific information about where
*   Hampton was probably sleeping, and a detailed floor plan of the house
*   which the special squad used during its raid.
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*   Thirteen years later, in November 1982, District Court Judge John F.
*   Grady determined that there was sufficient evidence of an FBI-led
*   conspiracy to deprive the Panthers of their civil rights, and awarded
*   the plaintiffs $1.85 million in damages.


:   5/30/97 MSNBC
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:   After more than a quarter of a century in prison, a Black Panther
:   activist has won the right to a new trial. A judge ruled there had
:   been prosecutorial misconduct. The judge overturned the conviction
:   when it was disclosed the government prosecutors withheld critical
:   evidence:
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:       o They never said the informer was working with and paid by
:         the FBI.
:   
:       o A former FBI agent also agrees with his alibi: that he was
:         in the Black Panther HQ at the time of the murder. That the
:         FBI knew this because they were monitoring the HQ.
:   
:       o And the jury never knew the eyewitness, who has since died,
:         had misidentified people in other cases.
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:   He has been turned down for parole 16 times, and had been in prison
:   longer than most murderers.
:
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:   6/10/97 MSNBC: Mr. Pratt has been freed over the U.S. Attorney's
:   objections. His first minutes of freedom were spent with his