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(N.Z .P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) CHICAGO, Sept. 1. A county prosecutor who has become the centre of a storm which is rocking the powerful Democratic Party machine in Chicago, refused to plead yesterday when charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in an inquiry into the deaths of Black Panther Party leaders. The prosecutor, Edward Hanrahan, of Cook County, is accused, with 13 policemen and officials, of attempting to cover up the police role in the fatal raid in December, 1969, that led to the deaths of two Black Panthers, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Hanrahan, a close friend and political ally of Mr Richard Daley, the Mayor of Chicago, declared in the Chicago Criminal Court that he did not recognise the conspiracy indictment as valid. His codefendants also refused to plead on the indictment, which was drawn up by a special county grand jury. The accused are also charged with interfering in the defence of seven surviving Black Panthers who were accused at first of attempted murder, but were later freed from any charge.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 13
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174VALIDITY DISPUTED Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 13
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