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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...
...defendants are being tried on charges stemming from the slaying of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. Like many defense lawyers, Seale's attorney, Charles Garry, sees his client as a victim. He insists that a black militant cannot obtain a panel of impartial jurors from voter rolls, which are stocked largely with white, middle-class citizens. None of them, he claims, "could possibly judge an enemy of the Establishment...
Garry also accused Epstein of prejudicing the cause of his client, Bobby Seale, and Seale's co-defendant, Ericka Huggins, who are now on trial for their lives in New Haven in connection with the death of Alex Rackley, discussed in the New Yorker article...
...Nothing in the article reflects on Seale himself. Besides, Garry is using the wrong tactics. He could have gotten a very quick trial for Seale if he had settled for a mostly white middle-class jury. As for Ericka Huggins, I think she's very much mixed up in Rackley's death," Epstein continued...
Garry is currently defending Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale, on trial in Now Haven for allegedly conspiring to kidnap and murder Panther Alex Rackley...