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Cointelpro anyone?
This case reminds me of Geronimo Pratt (read "last man standing: the Geronimo Pratt story). Pratt was convicted of a double homicide in L.A. The FBI somehow forgot to mention to the court that they had recordings of Pratt in Oakland at the time of the murder; under cointelpro the FBI had planted bugs in the homes of several Black Panthers. They couldn't let a little thing like the guilt or innocence get in the way of sending a Black Panther to death row. It turns out that the real murderers worked for the FBI's informant who testified against Pratt.
Welcome back to the Hoover/Nixon era, part II.