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...HAVEN, CONN. - A Superior Court judge dismissed charges Tuesday against Balck Panther chairman Bobby G. Seale and Ericka Huggins, because, he said, massive publicity made it impossible to select another jury that would be impartial...
Scale and Huggins, a New Haven Panther leader, were charged with capital crimes in the 1969 slaying of another Panther...
Huggius was immediately freed, and she was mobbed by Panther sympathizers as she left the courthouse...
...Seale, who founded the Black Panther party with Huey P. Newton in 1966, remains in custody, still facing a four-year contempt of court sentence stemming from the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial...
...Black Panther attorney Theodore Keskoff said he will ask that all charges be dropped on the grounds that the state already found it could not sustain a "reasonable doubt" in the case. "How many shots should the state get?" Keskoff said yesterday...