Watch This Case -- Panther 10 Go On Trial

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Editor's Note: JR Valrey interviews Stuart Hanlon a lawyer defending a group of former Black Panthers under indictment for the decades old murder of a San Francisco Police officer. JR Valrey is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.

JR: What are the charges against these former Panthers?

Hanlon: The indictments have two parts - one of their charges was killing this precinct Sergeant Young, who was shot in the Ingleside (San Francisco) station in '71, but then they're charged with conspiracy to kill policemen, and that conspiracy goes from 1968-1973. And basically it's a broad-based attack on what they call the BLA (Black Liberation Army), but what is really the Black Panther Party in a lot of ways. It's an attack on the organization, on the history, and the politics of it. And they go through 6 or 7 events which they allege these people (were involved in) a conspiracy to kill policemen. So it is going to be a really multi-faceted prosecution.

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