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	Geronomo ji Jaga (Pratt)
		Pratt says he was framed for the murder by the authorities because he dared to stand up for his people as the leader of the Black Panther Party in Southern California.
		Geronimo ji Jaga (formerly Pratt) won an important legal battle on Feb. 17 when The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said they would not seek a retrial of ji Jaga for a 1968 murder.
		Geronimo Pratt does not brood about his 27 years behind bars—or about the evidence his lawyers found showing he was framed for a crime he never committed, possibly because late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wanted the Black Panther leader
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/45a/index-bed.html (434 words)

	Geronimo Pratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pratt was tried and convicted of the kidnap and murder of Caroline Olsen in 1972, and spent 27 years in prison, eight of which were in solitary confinement.
		Pratt was raised in Louisiana, where he claims to have witnessed lynchings and intimidation by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
		Pratt was represented by Stuart Hanlon and Johnnie Cochran in his original trial, and Cochran contributed much to the appeals that later led to his conviction being overturned and the case dismissed on June 10, 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geronimo_Pratt (392 words)

	CNN - Former Black Panther freed after 27 years in jail - June 10, 1997
		Pratt has maintained he was railroaded for the killing as FBI and police sought to undermine the Black Panther movement in California.
		Pratt, 49, had said prior to his release that the first thing he wanted to do upon gaining his freedom was to visit his mother, who is in her 90s.
		Pratt always has maintained his innocence in the murder, contending he was in Oakland at the time of the killing.
	www.cnn.com /US/9706/10/pratt.release (662 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War: THE VETERAN: Freedom But Not Yet Justice For Geronimo Pratt
		Pratt has already paid a high price for justice: the loss of his first wife and unborn child, decades of incarceration, separation from his family.
		The case of Pratt and the Los Angeles Panthers is equally deadly, and instructive.
		Pratt was convicted of first degree murder on July 28, and got the usual sentence: seven years to life.
	www.vvaw.org /veteran/article/?id=247 (1490 words)

	GERONIMO PRATT
		Pratt's innocence." Geronimo has consistently charged that he was the victim of a political frame-up, and over the years evidence has surfaced that support his contention.
		During Pratt's trial, the FBI, LAPD and the D.A.'s office deliberately withheld from the defense information gathered through three sets of FBI wiretaps proving that Geronimo was 400 miles away when the murder was committed.
		Prison authorities were intent on forcing Pratt to renounce his commitment to the struggle of Black people and "to change his attitude toward the criminal justice system." Attorney Cochran asserts that the evidence clearly shows that Geronimo was framed, and the D.A.'s appeal will come to naught.
	shadow.mediafilter.org /shadow/S42/S42geronimo.html (483 words)

	Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
		Pratt was imprisoned for 27 years for a crime he clearly did not commit.
		Pratt was convicted of the December 1968 Santa Monica tennis-court murder of school teacher Caroline Olsen.
		The courage and essential goodness of Geronimo Pratt, in spite of receiving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit, is truly inspiring.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Last_Man_Standing:_The_Tragedy_and_Triumph_of_Geronimo_Pratt-0385493681.html (1040 words)

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		Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt is a former Black Panther and accused murderer whose name became a rallying cry for the left for more than 25 years.
		Pratt's car, a GTO convertible with North Carolina license plates, was identified by witnesses at both crime scenes.
		Pratt's alibi was that he was allegedly attending a Black Panther meeting in Oakland at the time of Olsen's murder.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1525 (638 words)

	Green Left - Issues: New light on frame-up of Geronimo Pratt
		Geronimo was framed in 1971 for the US$22 robbery and murder of Caroline Olsen on a Santa Monica tennis court in December 1968.
		Geronimo was immediately transferred to Mole Creek State Prison where he was denied his own cell, a necessity due to medical problems stemming from his Vietnam war wounds (he received two Purple Hearts, along with various decorations for valour and meritorious service).
		Thirty-eight Black Panthers were killed during this period: Geronimo himself escaped assassination on December 8, 1969, during a five-hour police siege of the LA Panther headquarters, only because he was sleeping on the floor to relieve the pain from spinal injuries he had received in Vietnam, and escaped the fusillade fired at his bed.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1994/153/9174 (708 words)

	injusticebusters 2001 > > Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt: Simply released rather than retried in a case that ...
		Pratt's conviction in the murder, that of a teacher, had just been reversed by a judge, who said the prosecution had suppressed evidence that might have kept him from being convicted.
		Pratt could still face a new trial, even though the husband of the victim who identified Pratt has died and Julius "Julio" Butler, the man who said Pratt had confessed to the killing, was labeled by the judge who overturned the conviction as a liar and a government informer with a grudge against Pratt.
		Pratt and his supporters have always contended that it was his politics and not his deeds that put him in some of the toughest prisons in the state for so long.
	www.injusticebusters.com /index.htm/Pratt_Elmer.htm (3037 words)

	LAST MAN STANDING
		The case of Geronimo Pratt, imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a murder he didn’t commit, is one of history’s most flagrant examples.
		Pratt had grown up in the bayou country southwest of New Orleans, surrounded by a loving family that valued hard work, self-reliance and education.
		While Geronimo Pratt is the central figure of the book, the author also follows his ragtag legal team, working pro bono year in year out, passing the hat to pay legal fees, filing writ after writ in a cause that never seemed better than hopeless.
	www.jackolsen.com /pratt.htm (1484 words)

	Salon \| David Horowitz
		Pratt was convicted in 1972 of robbing and murdering a grade school teacher on a Santa Monica tennis court.
		Pratt's car, a GTO convertible with North Carolina license plates, was identified by witnesses at both crime scenes.
		Pratt also claimed -- some might think fancifully -- that his car was used by other Party members, that the gun, though found in his apartment, was not his, and that two Panthers, now conveniently dead, actually committed the murders.
	www.salon.com /may97/columnists/horowitz970512.html (885 words)

	Justice Too Long Delayed
		Geronimo is now out on bail pending Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti’s appeal of judge Everett Dickey’s decision to grant him a new trial in the infamous "tennis court murder" case.
		Geronimo was one of America’s longest-held New Afrikan (Black) Prisoners of War.
		The Pratt case is an example of the type of campaign that must be waged to free these courageous men and women.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/nov97hassan.htm (1127 words)

	Dennis Bernstein - Mumia Library
		For the man called Geronimo, that pen stroke, which granted him a new trial based upon prosecutorial misconduct in withholding material evidence from the defense, was truly a long time in coming...over 25 years.
		For over a quarter of a century Geronimo languished in California hellholes, under an unjust conviction, and under the repressive, politically-charged thumbs of LA. Prosecutors, police and a judiciary intent on denying him any hint of freedom---ever.
		At Geronimo's 1972 murder trial, the state's star witness, Julius "Julio" Butler, swore under oath that "I've never been an informant." And the LA District Attorney sat in silence, knowing it was a lie.
	www.flashpoints.net /mNewDayForGeronimo.html (659 words)

	ACLU News: Judge Turns Down Efforts To Halt Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt's Civil Rights Suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Pratt's fight for justice will continue” In an important development in the civil rights suit brought by former Black Panther party leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a federal district judge said today that she would permit the case to proceed, and that she was rejecting efforts by the defendants to have the case thrown out.
		Pratt, who spent nearly three decades behind bars, is alleging that his conviction and life sentence for a 1968 murder was the result of a conspiracy by federal and local law enforcement agents.
		In 1997, Pratt's conviction was invalidated by a California state court that held he had not received a fair trial because evidence had been withheld.
	www.aclu-sc.org /News/Releases/1999/100280 (486 words)

	'Geronimo' Pratt: Free at Last - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology
		Geronimo Pratt maintained his dignity, integrity and respect for his fellow man through 27 years of imprisonment for a crime which overwhelming evidence shows he did not commit.
		Pratt was fingered for the crime in 1970, after he became the leader of the Los Angeles chapter of the Panthers.
		He was set up.” Swearingen stated that the FBI knew three wiretaps existed which placed Pratt in Northern California before, during and after the so-called tennis court murder, but the bureau withheld this and other vital information from the court and the jury which would have absolved Pratt.
	www.freedommag.org /english/vol29I4/page03.htm (541 words)

	Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt: Former Black Panther Freed on $25,000 Bail - CNN 10jun97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Pratt, who was 22 when he was jailed for the 1968 murder of a Santa Monica teacher, has said the first thing he wanted to do, if released, was visit his mother.
		Dickey ruled last month that Pratt did not receive a fair trial in the murder of Caroline Olsen, ordering prosecutors to either give Pratt a new trial or drop the case.
		Pratt has maintained his innocence in the murder throughout, saying he was in Oakland at the time of the killing.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Geronimo-Pratt-Freed10jun97.htm (227 words)

	Jack Olsen interview -- Geromino Pratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His exact orders were: "Neutralize Geronimo Pratt." His agents did the rest.
		When he was finally let out of "the hole," Pratt became one of San Quentin's most valuable residents -- teaching, organizing self-help training groups, counseling fellow Vietnam veterans, raising money for charities, helping to keep order among rival ethnic groups.
		Pratt recently won a $4.5 million civil settlement.
	www.jackolsen.com /geronimo.htm (433 words)

	Index
		In 1997 he won the freedom of Black Panther leader Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt who spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.
		Pratt would always say, “They're out to get me.” “They’re.” And I would always say, “Well, what do you mean by ‘they?’ What do you mean by ‘they?’ Who is this ‘they?’” And, of course, he was right, and as I said, I learned a lot from representing Mr.
		Pratt confessed to him and was asked by me, “Are you now or have you ever been an informant for the F.B.I. or any other agency?” And he said, “No.” He said, “No.” Unequivocally no. He lied.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=05/03/30/1544254 (1010 words)

	Politics in the Zeros_archi »Blog Archive » Johnnie Cochran never gave up on freeing Geronimo Pratt
		It was the long and twisted legal saga of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt that for Cochran marked, at different points, the nadir and the pinnacle of his career.
		Cochran said his biggest disappointment was watching his client, Pratt, convicted of murder in 1972.
		Pratt told The Times on Tuesday that Cochran was “truly a soldier fully dedicated to making sure that the rights of the oppressed be defended.”
	polizeros.com /2005/03/30/johnnie-cochran-never-gave-up-on-freeing-geronimo-pratt (306 words)

	The last revolutionary. (Geronimo Pratt aka Geronimo Ji Jaga, Black leader during the Black Panther Party era of the ...
		(Geronimo Pratt aka Geronimo Ji Jaga, Black leader during the Black Panther Party era of the 1960s freed after being imprisoned for 27 years)(The Many Ways of Looking at a Black Man)(Cover Story)(Interview)
		Pratt, who has changed his surname to Ji Jaga, was finally released in 1997 after the years of hard work by lawyer Johnnie Cochran paid off.
		Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who long ago changed his last name to Ji Jaga, used to be one of them.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-19945626.html (224 words)

	Flashpoints.net - Mumia Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Over a quarter of a century ago, State and Federal so called "law enforcement force" caged Geronimo and framed him for a murder they knew he didn't commit..
		His only "crime" in the words of the authorities was '"he is still a revolutionary " That is why they cased him, framed him and held him so long.
		He is still a revolutionary, and will soon be a free man! Our salute to Geronimo, his lawyers and his supporters for a well-won victory.
	www.flashpoints.net /mGeronimo.html (104 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Daily Hip-Hop News
		Cochran once mentioned that his biggest disappointment came when his client Elmer "Geronimo Ji Jaga" Pratt, a Nationalist activist, Vietnam War veteran and godfather to Tupac Shakur, was convicted of murder in 1972.
		Authorities alleged that Pratt robbed and shot a young white couple on a tennis court in 1968.
		The woman died, and her husband survived to identify Pratt in a line-up two years after the shooting.
	www.allhiphop.com /hiphopnews/?ID=4245 (956 words)

	CNN - L.A. prosecutor appeals release of 'Geronimo' Pratt - Jan. 31, 1998
		CNN - L.A. prosecutor appeals release of 'Geronimo' Pratt - Jan. 31, 1998
		Orange County Superior Court Judge Everett Dickey reversed Pratt's 1972 conviction in the 1968 killing of Caroline Olsen, a Santa Monica teacher, saying prosecutors had failed to disclose that one of their witnesses was a paid informant.
		After spending 27 years in prison, Pratt was released June 10, 1997, after posting bail.
	www.cnn.com /US/9801/31/briefs/geronimo.pratt (194 words)

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