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...once, Huey P. Newton, co-founder and stern ideologue of the Black Panther Party, was smiling. The ten women and two men of the jury were filing out of the Alameda County courtroom in Oakland, Calif. After six days of wrangling over the case, in which Newton was accused of killing a police officer, they were so firmly deadlocked that Judge Harold B. Hove declared a mistrial and dismissed them. "This shows that with at least one black person on the jury I can get a fair trial," Newton said. "A hung jury keeps me out of jail...
...jury's final straw vote had been 11 to 1 for conviction. But Newton's reasoning was wrong. It was not the lone black woman on the jury who had won him a respite until he is tried again. It was a 50-year-old white housewife, Juanita Henderson, who describes herself as aggressive and insists that she went into the jury room with an open mind...
Only a Law Book. As in his first trial in 1968, Newton's defense was that he had been unconscious when Rookie Patrolman John Frey was fatally shot in the early-morning dark of Oct. 28, 1967. Newton said that he had nothing more lethal than a law book in his car when Frey stopped him, and that when he tried to quote the law book, Frey became enraged and shot him in the belly. After that, said Newton, he remembered nothing except hearing a volley of shots. The defense suggested that Frey might have been accidentally shot...
...trial, the jury dismissed a murder charge but found Newton guilty of voluntary manslaughter. After he had served 22 months of a two-to 15-year sentence, he won a round: the California Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. It found that the trial judge had failed to instruct the jury that if it believed Newton had been unconscious, it could not find him guilty...
...hated it, distributors shunned it. But black audiences loved Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a foxy film centering around an outlaw from the ghetto who throws down girls-white and black -the way Billy the Kid tossed back sarsaparilla. In the end he gets away with everything. Huey Newton, Black Panther defense minister, called it "the first truly revolutionary black film...