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...murder of Fred Hampton in his bed, to the generalized national campaign to put the most dynamic Panthers out of circulation. But the difference is quantitative. Bobby Seale and his brothers and sisters are on trial for galvanizing parts of the angry black community (ostensibly for killing Alex Rackley), and they face execution. Carl Offner, John Berg, and Jamie Kilbreth are in jail for galvanizing parts of the angry Harvard community (ostensibly for some weirdly choreographed attack on a dean's elbow), and they have been put away for as long as a year. All of these people are political...
Admissible Tapes. Seale and his co-defendants reject the murder charge. Panthers claim that Rackley was a Panther in good standing, and say that his death was engineered by Sams, who they contend was working with the police. They also claim that Sams is mentally incompetent, and have succeeded in obtaining a court-ordered psychiatric examination...
...even if the court finds Sams to be mentally unstable, the police still believe they have a case against the New Haven Eight. The court has ruled that the tape describing Rackley's torture and trial is admissible as evidence. The police themselves have a pistol seized at Panther headquarters in New Haven. Ballistics experts assert that it was the same weapon that killed Rackley...
...George Sams seems to be the prosecution's only link to Bobby Scale. Last Wednesday, at a bail hearing for Seale, Sams testified that Seale had entered a room where other defendants were holding Rackley and asked "Is that a pig?" When the other Panthers replied that it was a pig, Sams said, Seale then replied, "what do you do with a pig? Off the [deleted]." He testified that he, Lonnie McLucas and Warren Kimbro, had driven Rackley to a place near the river. Then, Sams said, "Kimbro shot him first. Lonnie hit him second...
...DEFENSE strategy is not yet clear, but the Panthers have stated repeatedly during the investigation that Alex Rackley was a member of the Party in good standing and that he was killed by police agents. Charles Garry told reporters, "We have every reason to believe and we intend to prove that Rackley was murdered by police agents." In an interview published in The Black Panther, the Party's official newspaper, published March 21, Scale said, "George Sams killed Alex Rackley . . . George Samsdefinitely actually in fact was the one who did kill Brother Alex Rackley, and Brother Alex Rackley...