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The jury panel for the Huey Newton trial came in at 9 45 as instructed this morning, but they were immediately dismissed when it became evident that defense attorney Charles Gary intended to pursue his examination of jury selection methods in Alameda County this morning, security was Justus

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tight, as it was yesterday morning, and no one was allowed inside the building unless they were there on official business or they worked inside. The press, even had to wait outside the building until 8 30 before being allowed to enter to get their courtroom passes. The

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Black Panthers, of which you and Newton is the co founder and leader, showed up at about 8 30 placed men at each entrance and corner of the courthouse at about nine o'clock. Some 200 demonstrators marched around the courthouse, chanting various slogans relating to police and the

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freeing of Newton. The panthers, Some 50 males and 20 females lined the east steps and walls of the courthouse held flags and banners chanted and sang and kept general order among their own. At the noon recess, most of the marches retired to the lawn of Lakeside

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Park, where they chatted. Sangin ate lunch. And this gave us an opportunity to ask Eldridge Cleaver, the author and Panther minister of information, how he felt about the Newton trial during the course of the tri ALS hair is defense will be so strong and the evidence

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in his favor would be so overwhelming that even, uh, a jury infected with varying degrees of white racism would be embarrassed to come back with a guilty verdict. However, it's a possibility that if the jury ah, handpicked jury, uh, that has been tampered with by the

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prosecution way get that type of jury then, no matter what the evidence is, the verdict is, uh, predetermined. Mr. Cleaver, you saying that there is evidence in favor of you in mutant that has not been brought before the public and that this evidence will set you

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free? Uh, the only reason that we haven't been going around disclosing he was defense, uh, prior to the trial, because we know that the Oakland Police Department and District Attorney Coakley's office will fabricate a prosecution around his defense. Defense attorneys Gary and Edward Keating have been

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constantly holding conferences, and I asked Mr Gary if he felt that he had made any progress in his attempt to show prejudice in Alameda County jury selection. Well, I think we've shown tremendous progress. Whether the judge agrees with our analysis depends upon how he rules tomorrow.

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Next day, you've had two days of discussions and arguments and motions. How many days do you think you're going to continue with this? And when do you think you will get to the selection of the jury itself? Well, we will hope that the court will grant

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our motion to quash even Ari tomorrow. And if he doesn't will probably start picking the jury Thursday morning unless the Supreme Court of the United States stops this trial until the 1964 conviction has been ruled upon and reviewed by the United States Supreme Court, the case

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was continued until 9 45 tomorrow morning. The Black Panthers began moving in small groups and leaving at about three o'clock. And by 4. 15 this afternoon, the area around the courthouse was all clear. But it starts all over again tomorrow morning. This is Carlton Cordell reporting