Word: rackley
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...game started slow and at the end of one half the Celts led 555-4'. Highlight of the first half included long range bombing by "Dollar" Bill Bradley, and the heart stopping appearance of none other than the man-Luther Rackley...
...promised to be one of the most celebrated trials of the decade. In New Haven, Conn., Bobby G. Scale, national chairman of the Black Panther Party, stood charged by the state with ordering the murder of Fellow Panther Alex Rackley. A rally last year in support of Scale and his codefendant, Mrs. Ericka Huggins, attracted 15,000 demonstrators and a host of National Guardsmen to the New Haven Green, and "Free Ericka, Free Bobby" became a protest watchword, aerosoled onto sidewalks and building fronts across the country. The jury selection required a laborious four months; more than 1,500 individuals...
Extremely Weak Case. The chief witness in the state's case was George Sams Jr., a participant in the Rackley killing, who last year pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Sams contended that on the night of the torture, Seale had visited the house where Rackley, a suspected police informer, was being held and had given the order to "do away with him." The whole prosecution effort was bent on proving that even if Seale had not actually given the order to have Rackley killed, he, as well as Mrs. Huggins, had at least known about it. It failed...
State Attorney Arnold Markle said yesterday that he will try to get a retrial for co-defendants Seale and Ericka Huggins, both charged with the kidnapping and slaying of Alex Rackley, another Panther member...
Some observers have compared the Webb case to the Rackley case. However, a key difference is that the villains in the Panther version of the Rackley case are the police, while Panthers are now accusing fellow Party members of the Webb murder...