MONA OW 4 a:Panthers? 4, Amnesty Want to Asked by Return Continued from Page a< want to reurn to the U. S. ...at "It's their country," the lawyer said. "It's no fun liv- 2 Panthers ing in Algeria. It's living in By RALPH BLUMENFELD exile." Acquitted Black Panther fugitives Michael Tabor and Tabor may have extra Richard Moore today demanded that District Attorney homesickness. He has half- la Hogan offer them amnesty on bail-jumping charges so they written a book, and wouki X like to see it published here. can come home from Algeria. • Their lawyers, Gerald Lefcourt and William E. Crain, Another book, the autobi- ography of the , said Hogan should act because he was responsible for the will be in print within three high $100,000 and $50,000 bail set for all 13 Panthers ac- weeks, Crain said. Random quitted Thursday in an alleged bomb-and-murder con- House is publishing the spiracy. work, ntitled "Look for Me "Hogan called a big press Indicted, on one condition. In the Whirlwind," with chap- conference on April 2, 1969, That would be if the four ters by 16 of the indicted the day they were arrested," in Algeria return to Hogan's '-7 Panthers, including all the Lefeourt said. "He went on jurisdiction voluntarily, to defendants. Five of the 21 TV and scared the city and face the bail-jumping charge could not meet their dead- scared the country with the or have it dropped and per- line ) idea that the Panthers were mit him to close the case once N running around with bombs and for The mood at the Lawyers all. Commune, at 640 Broadway, and guns. That's how he got • Tabor and Moore fled last Letcoures headquarters, re- $100,000 bail. Feb. 8, jumping bail of $50,- "He should call another trained euphoric the day af- 000 and $100,000 resPectively. ter the mass acquittal and It; press conference now. He the celebration that followed should tell Moore and Tabor Crain said amnesty also would be sought for two —a champagne party graced they can come back and he by 15 of the 16 jurors and won't indict them." other Panthers in Algeria, Nathaniel (Sekou Odinga) alternates. Want to Return Burns and Larry Mack, Only Mrs. Elite Yanes, Jur- A federal warrant was is- named as co-conspirators in e* No. 8, was unable to at- sued on the bailjumprmg the original 30-count tend the mixer of defendants, charges, but any prosecution ment. Both eluded a pre- defense lawyers and jurors. of the two must be made by dawn police dragnet here 25 'Conspiracy Was Convicted' Hogan's office. The maxi- months ago. mum prison sentences is four Despite their warm wel- Lefcourt said there was no way the defense could prop- come in socialist Algeria, erly thank the jurors'—"they Chre Panther lawyer con- with Panther philosopher siders it unlikely that Hogan were the only thing that de- will agree to amnesty, for the and a dozen cided this trial"--except by four fugitives in Algeria, but or so other Panthers, Crain Inviting them to the party. speculates that the DA would said there is no question It might have been the last dismiss charges against the that the New York foursome fury of is kind, he said, if co-conspirators who weren't Continued on Page 8 current efforts succeed in the Legislature to limit defense lawyers' roles in selecting a Jury, by turning over most of that function to judges. But there's no doubt, Lef- court said, that the Panther 13 acquital has heartened the radical community nationally. He waved a sheaf of con- gratulatorY telegrams, and estimated he had gotten 500 phone calls. "I think it's a big up," he said. "Conspiracy (as an Idea] Two Panthers was vonvicted and the de- fendants were acquitted. And we're not a fluke, either. Look 'Ask AMA ' g what's happened.. . . " He cited the "mini-Panther" Continued from Page 8 O conspiracy case defended by bail. He faces an attempted g Paul Chevigny here a few robbery charge. So does .„ months ago, which resulted in Lumumba Shakur, who is acquittal, and the Five also charged with possession case, which ended in acquittal of a dealy weapon. on conspiracy charges four Same Gun, Another Charge hours after the Panther 21 Shakur and William verdict - Kinshasa King are both Dc. Some Still Jailed charged with kidnaping in - the inmates' rebellion at the Prosecutions f black revo- Queens House of Detention -c Thomas (Mshina) Berry is lutionaries are at low tide. last fall. Their bail hearing z„' Charges against David Hil- a fugitive, his whereabouts is Tuesday. unknown. Lonnie Epps, a liard, chief of staff of the na- -AU Bey Hassan has a gun 141 tional , juvenile when indicted, will possession charge pending in have his case heard June 2. were dismissed last week. The hte Bronx—the same gun, New Haven murder cases Crain also hopes the same said Lefcourt, which was hearing will be attended by against party chairman Bob- withdarwn from the jury's by Seale and another Panther teenager, consideration in the con- Eddie Joseph, who jumped goes to the jury momentarily, spiracy trial early this week and murder charges against $5000 bail and fled. former Panther 21 lawyer Ar- by Justice John M. Murtagh, Lee Berry's case was se- along with sixx other gun thur Turco are still pending in vered due to illness. Richard Baltimore. counts. Harris awaits trial on an- Lefcourt said the five Pan- Robert Collier, on parole other charge in a New Jer- ther defendants sent back to when arrested in the con- sey Hikers Island while awaiting spiracy case, will seek rein- trial on other, unrelated, statementof parole to avoid charges would probably be having to finish the last half bailed out within a week— of a five-year sentence in a free for . the first time in conspiracy to bomb the Sta- over two years. tue of Liberty. Of the 21 Panthers origi- -One; Clark Squire;-was re-- nally indicted, eight still leased yesterday in $7500 could be prosecuted on the Continued on Page 9 same charges, in theory. But that would mean unlikely in view of the conspiracy jury's total _ repudiation of the prosecution case-156 counts, 156 "not guilty" verdicts. The only alleged co-con- spirator apparently open to prosecution now is Donald Weems, 24, also known as Kwesi Balagoon. He al- legedly fired shots at Patrol- man Roland McKenzie in the Harlem River Dr. incident, with one bullet penetrating McKenzie's summons pouch. That trial, if it took place, would deal with a tangible charge, assault, rather than an intangible conspiracy. Where They'Are Weems has been in jail throughout the conspiracy trial, facing a separate charge of assault in New Jersey. Now that there is bail money available, Crain hopes to meet Weems' $25,000 bond.