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UNITED STATES EX REL. SHAKUR v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

No. 69 Civ. 5146.

306 F.Supp. 507 (1969)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Lumumba Abdul SHAKUR, et al., Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION George F. McGrath, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

December 1, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald B. Lefcourt, Frederick H. Cohn, William E. Crain, New York City, William Kunstler, Sanford M. Katz, New York City, for petitioners.

Frank S. Hogan, Dist. Atty. of New York County, for respondent; Joseph A. Phillips, Asst. Dist. Atty., of counsel.

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

Thirteen petitioners, all but one of whom are members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, have been incarcerated for almost eight months awaiting trial on state charges of conspiring to murder policemen and to dynamite various public and private places. A few days ago they were named in a superseding indictment which contains new counts charging illegal possession of weapons and a further conspiracy. The petitioners...

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