More than 50 years have passed since Black Panthers Party co-founder Huey Newton entered an Oakland courtroom facing a murder charge, but his trial continues to influence the American legal system.…
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The trial’s outcome would hinge on the strategy of defense attorney Charles Garry. Above all, he aimed to seat a panel of open-minded jurors. African American banker David Harper was chosen for the jury – the only person of color on the panel – and he became its foreman. “He allowed Huey to give a class… on racial [history in America],” Ferrette says, “to be able to bring that to the present, to be able to make that more public.”
Testimony in the trial mitigated the perception some people held that Newton had acted in cold blood. For instance, it came out that the initial bullet that hit officer Frey was fired by his fellow officer. In the end, the jury led by Harper returned a verdict of not guilty of first-degree murder, but found Newton guilty of voluntary manslaughter. In 1970 the conviction was tossed out and two retrials resulted in hung juries.
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