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...grand-jury presentment, suppressed since April, was at last made public. It charged that Daley's heir apparent, Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, had conspired to obstruct justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of seven surviving Panthers accused of attempted murder. Indicted on the same charges were Hanrahan's assistant, who planned the raid, the eight policemen who entered the Panther pad and four other cops who subsequently became involved in the investigation. Police Superintendent James Conlisk was named as a coconspirator, but was not indicted...
...Hampton and Clark had been violated by police, declined to indict anyone, but did report that-contrary to police claims-there was evidence that only one bullet had been fired by the Panthers compared with at least 82 by police. Shortly before the federal grand-jury report, Prosecutor Hanrahan's office had abruptly reversed itself and decided to drop the Panther indictments because of "faulty" evidence. In the midst of all this confusion and in response to press and public pressure, a special county grand jury was convened last year to look into the whole affair...
...students left the offices of Father Edward J. Hanrahan, dean of Students, and James' Maclntyre, vice-president in charge of Student Affairs, after university officials obtained a temporary restraining order in Middlesex Superior Court banning the demonstration, but stated that they would insist on "positive and specific responses" to their demands by 7 p.m. Monday...
...chain of events leading up to the occupation began on March 8, when a student newsletter revealed that the position of Dean of Women, presently held by Ann Flynn, will be terminated as of June 30, 1971. Her job will be taken over by Hanrahan...
Edward V. Hanrahan, the Cook County state's attorney whose men had staged the foray, still insisted that the police version was true. He was forced to abandon the case, he explained, because new evidence showed that important information supplied by the Chicago police laboratory had been faulty. Also, some of the evidence would have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that...