DENNIS, Justice.
On January 10, 1972, a violent confrontation erupted between police officers and a number of Black Muslim demonstrators, when the officers attempted to clear North Boulevard, a thoroughfare in downtown Baton Rouge, which had been blocked by several parked cars. As a result of the confrontation five men were killed—two sheriff's deputies and three of the defendants' alleged co-conspirators. Earlier in the day a television news reporter at the...
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