Word: rackley
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...hard to say whether this is due to the general decline of radical political activity, or to a disillusionment with the Panthers, or perhaps to a growing suspicion that Seale and Huggins may not be innocent. They are charged with conspiracy to kidnap and murder Rackley. Seale is also charged with flight to avoid prosecution...
...SIGNIFICANT but little-noticed fact is that the McLucas trial did not establish the credibility of George Sams, the key prosecution witness in Seale's case. Sams alone testifies that Seale ordered Rackley's death. Kimbro, Luckes, and McLucas all denied this on the stand at McLucas' trial...
...Panthers claim that Sams is a police agent who engineered the murder of Alex Rackley, a Party member in good standing, in order to destroy the New Haven Chapter. The prosecution admits that it was Sams who actually commanded Kimbro and McLucas to abduct and shoot Rackley-allegedly on orders from "headquarters...
...cornerstone of the prosecution case against Huggins will be a tape recorder, which was also used as evidence against McLucas. Supposedly made the night of Rackley's murder, it allegedly contains the voice of Ericka Huggins making self-incriminatory statements...
Many jurors are excused by the judge after a brief questioning because they state, for example, that they would need to hear some evidence to prove that Huggins and Seale were not involved in the Rackley slaying. It is clear as these people leave the courtroom that they have no conception of why they were excused, that they see no contradiction between their statements and Judge Mulvey's careful admonition about the presumption of innocence...