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May 30, 1997  |  By Edward J Boyer  |  In Uncategorized

Judge Reverses Conviction of Geronimo Pratt

May 30, 1997|EDWARD J. BOYER | TIMES STAFF WRITER A judge on Thursday reversed the quarter-century-old murder conviction of former Black Panther Party leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, culminating Pratt’s prolonged struggle to win a new trial. In a sharply worded opinion that was harshly critical of Los Angeles County prosecutors, Santa Ana Superior Court Judge Everett W. […]

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I was hooked on becoming an ink-stained wretch after seeing my first byline when I was in 4th Grade and covered a basketball tournament for our elementary school newspaper in Detroit. Those bylines continued on newspapers in high school, at Wayne State University and at the two dailies in the Motor City. I left daily journalism for nearly six years to work as a correspondent for Time magazine, but returned as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times…[Read More]

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