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Mr Murphy, will your clients enter a plea on October 2nd? I believe they will, Right, Because this, they're gonna be is there going to be a change and they're gonna remain out there planning. And there's no change plan before their plea, then, because of this other

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room, What did happen in court this morning for our own records? Well, today Judge Coolidge in for my clients of the nature of the charge against against him, which is, ah, violation of 2 46 of the penal code, which is a complaint that they fired at

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and inhabited, dwelling or occupied building. Uh, this is, Ah, law that was enacted in 1949. There, actual time in the courtroom was very brief. Attorney William J. Murphy, himself a former San Francisco police officer, waived the reading of the complaint and the right to a speedy

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arraignment requested instead that the case be put over to October 2nd at 9 15 because of other court commitments. Judge Polish granted the motion and the men prepared to leave the courtroom when attorney Murphy was approached by two men, told reporters that he had received some

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new information on the case And then a mad dash through the halls began as the two accused men went to a ward room on the second floor for further conversations with police. Lieutenant Jafria reporters and cameramen waited outside the ward room for nearly an hour till

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Murphy emerged to explain the mystery. A rumor was this. The that on Monday morning in the office of Clinton, White and Oakland attorney Mr Don Warden, who's also an Oakland attorney, were holding up, were to hold a press conference at this press conference. They were to

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inform the community via the press that on the, uh, the night of the shooting at the Black Panther headquarters, uh, Thio ladies were kidnapped by, uh, my clients, uh, Officer William Williams and Officer Pharaoh and forcibly raped Uhh. We, uh, came in here to the robbery

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detail. I conferred with my clients after a conference with my clients and after the investigating officers informed my clients of their rights and so forth way. We told the investigating officers that my clients will fully cooperate with the Oakland Police Department in an investigation of this

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unfounded rumor. My clients did not kidnap any ladies. My clients did not rape anyone and at the present time the investigation is being conducted in the office of the robbery detail on my clients will under grow a lie detector test then and what may have been

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a hint of the defense he will use for the two accused officers. Murphy described our cities today as combat zones and said that police officers often suffered from something similar to battle fatigue since their life was constantly in danger. He said that if you could say

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the two men did not have full possession of their facilities at the time the alleged incident occurred, then you could say that they were blameless. He also said if anyone other than a police officer had shot into an empty building, it would be a misdemeanor rather

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than a felony. Williams in Pharaoh will continue free on $3000 bail of peace. Their next court appearance scheduled October 2nd 9:15 a.m. This is Claude Man reporting from Oakland. Gentlemen, there's been an unforeseen development in this case, and, uh, at this time I cannot make any

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statement. I'm gonna follow these two officers into the police building on, uh, investigation is gonna continue over there. Can you tell us something over there? After you find out, Mr Williams being human? What? Your heart e you could