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Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale, his wife and four of their friends who were arrested last Sunday were arraigned today in Berkeley Municipal Court. Seal and his wife, Rt. Were charged with illegal possession of a sawed off shotgun and altering the serial numbers of another weapon.

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The other four were charged with having a concealed weapon and or a loaded gun in public. All parties entered pleas of not guilty before Judge Floyd Talbot and requested a preliminary hearing. The accused will be back in court on March 5th for setting of a date

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for that hearing, and the judge reduced Bobby Seale's bail from $11 to $3. Following the arraignment, Seal and his attorney, Charles Gary, talked with reporters. Thes are phony charges. You cannot barge into a man's home under the pretense that there's been a disturbance in the neighborhood

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and you're seeking inquiry and barge into a man's home, break into his home and, with guns drawn, tie everybody up, put him under man Nichols and then searched the house and put the house into a rand shackle. In fact, I have a 45 automatic that serial

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numbers have been altered. Now you're asking. I never had such a weapon, Bob. The other people arrested. Look, there were also noted information. I found out that other races in the community working with the Police Department at that time. Now, far as I'm concerned, if they

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said any said often of numbers, they did it. Bobby, Did you think it has anything to do with what's happened over Merit College in the last couple of days? College. I ain't got nothing to do with Merritt College. I believe that's a bunch of phone my

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opinion. I have anything to do with it. Seal was not formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, one of the charges lodged against him when he was arrested on Sunday. District attorney says that IS Still Under Investigation ART Brown Reporting from Berkeley.