Word: newtons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Newton, founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, was released Wednesday on $50,000 bail while awaiting a new trial on charges stemmin from the shooting of an Oakland Policeman...
Convicted in September of 1968 of voluntary manslaughter, Newton was serving a two to fifteen year sentence in a California penal farm. However, the conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeals on May 29 on the grounds that the trial judge had failed properly to instruct the jury...
...judge had neglected to tell the jurors that if Newton's contention that he had been wounded and unconscious at the time of the crime was true then he could not be found guilty of the shooting...
...appeals court added that it was "reasonably probable" that, had this been pointed out to the jury, Newton might have received a more favorable verdict...
...State Supreme Court upheld the reversal last week and ordered Newton released on bail...