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Federal Magistrate writes that Albert Woodfox's case should be overturned

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 12, 2008 National Briefing | South-NY Times Louisiana: Case of Ex-Black Panther By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The conviction of a former Black Panther in the killing of a prison guard in 1972 should be overturned because his former lawyer should have objected to testimony from witnesses who had died after his original trial, a federal magistrate found. The lawyer?s omission denied a fair second trial for the man, Albert Woodfox, in 1998, the magistrate, Christine Nolan, wrote Tuesday in a recommendation to the federal judge who will rule later. Mr. Woodfox, 61, and Herman Wallace, 66, were convicted in the stabbing death of the guard, Brent Miller, on April 17, 1972. Mr. Wallace has been appealing his conviction based on arguments similar to Mr...continue to full post

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