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-- from Jacqueline Tabb and Linda Torres;
-- from Willie Jean Davis, who identified two other men, not the defendants, as the killers;
-- undisclosed evidence that a suspected drugs trafficker, Adolph Porter, was the real target, and the killings were drugs related;
-- the suppressed exculpatory FBI ballistics test on the .45 caliber weapon seized after Muntaqim and Washington were arrested;
-- the perjured testimony of NYPD detective George Simmons concerning the test; and
-- the recanted testimony of one witness, Rubin Scott, who was intimidated to cooperate at trial.
In total, these violations create a "reasonable probability" that had jurors known the truth their verdict might have been different.
The three defendants were named in later revealed COINTELPRO documents as Black Liberation Army (BLA) and Panther Party (BPP) members, targeted to be "neutralized" by the FBI's war on dissent, political activism, and opposition to government injustice against society's most vulnerable - a war still raging against Muslims, Latinos, Blacks, activists, and heroic lawyers who defend them.
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