[Ppnews] Federal Judge denies Grand Jury appeal

[Political Prisoner News]

A Federal Court denied a defense habeas corpus request to release Ray 
Boudreaux from SF County Jail. He is being held for refusing to cooperate 
with a State Grand Jury investigating a 30-year old case. Attorney Michael 
Burt, representing Boudreaux, argued that the limited immunity granted his 
client was abusive as it compelled potentially self incriminating evidence 
if Boudreaux were to answer questions posed by the Attorney General in 
front of the Grand Jury. This investigation is pursuing numerous Black 
activists that were harassed, arrested and some tortured and attacked by 
police over 30-years ago during the height of Cointelpro and the FBI-led 
war against the Black Panther Party and the Black liberation movement. 
Several of the government 'investigators' are the same cops whose 
participation in torture, abusive treatment, attacks in the community and 
other illegal procedures led to the dismissal of charges against several of 
these same activists in the 1970s.

Ray Boudreaux, Richard Brown, Hank Jones and Harold Taylor remain in state 
custody in county jails throughout the Bay Area. A hearing for John Bowman 
is scheduled for Friday at 2:30 pm in State Superior Courtroom 206 in front 
of the same judge that called for the imprisonment of the others. (Polk and 
McAllister in Judge Dondero's courtroom)

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