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After two years of constant police harassment-legal and otherwise-have decimated its leadership, the Black Panther Party seems in city after city to have fallen into disarray...
...converged on New Haven last May loudly denounced the police contention that Bobby Seale as Panther chairman had ordered Rackey, a member of the New York Chapter, executed as a police informer. Also, these white supporters felt, like Yale's President Kingman Brewster, that it was impossible for a black revolutionary to get a fair trial anywhere in America...
However, the months since May Day have seen another New Haven Panther, Lonnie McLucas, receive what seemed to be a fair trial, at least by the standards of normal criminal justice. McLucas was convicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 15 years-largely on the testimony of George Sams, Loretta Luckas, and Warren Kimbro, other Panthers who had been indicted in the crime and then turned state's evidence...
Most of them have heard or read quite a bit about Garry, who has defended so many Panthers on so many charges all over the country that the Party calls him the only true "White Panther...
Unlike McLucas' lawyer, Garry and, to a lesser extent, Roraback play up the involvement of the Panthers in the case, and the trial's political nature. Garry even takes every opportunity to remind the juror of the connection, introducing himself time and time again as, "representing Mr. Seale, co-founder and chairman of the Black Panther Party...