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Presiding Judge John Murtagh's home was bombed during the pretrial hearings. Two defendants fled to Algeria when the trial was five months old. After all the months of disruption and acrimony, it took the jury just 90 minutes last week to find the defendants innocent of every charge...
...charge: conspiracy to bomb public places in New York City and assassinate police. The courtroom atmosphere: chaotic, as scuffling and shouting became part of the daily docket in the pretrial hearings of 13 Black Panthers. Only after Judge John Murtagh stopped all action, presenting the prospect of indefinite jail stays, did the proceedings settle down to ten months of routine, producing little dramatic evidence and no political show reminiscent of the Chicago Seven trial...
State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh, who has kept a firm hand on the months of pretrial hearings and jury selections, says it is "just a criminal indictment...
...other beleaguered trial judges also had reason to be pleased with the decision. New York Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh in February had abruptly recessed a pretrial hearing for 13 boisterous Panthers accused of plotting to bomb public places in New York City. This week, armed with solid support for strict discipline plus notification from the defendants that they were ready to stand trial, Murtagh will resume their case. Just one day after the Supreme Court ruling, Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas Judge Leo Weinrott was confronted with Defendant George Kenney, who kept yelling at potential jurors...
...been extradited to New Haven to stand trial, with thirteen other part members, for the murder of Alex Rackley, a Panther who had been in good standing. Given the peculiar brand of justice that has been custom-made for the Panthers (another current example of which is Judge John Murtagh's wholly illegal detention of the New York 21), one suspects that the New Haven 14 are in big trouble regardless of the evidence. Seale and his co-defendants might have to irrefutably prove their belief that police agents killed Rackley to be acquitted...