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(COO018 _ _ : 6 - . .) -. . . . On Tucsday, Scptmber 30th, Judge I 1 9 f f h n ordered the Jury sequcstcrcd i n 8 dowatanr hotel foUcwlnc indications that two jurors had teen threntcned. The thenteain3 letters, t o two femle Jurors, s i ~ c d "The Black Panthers", were examined by t h e Jules in his cham- bers together vlth pmstcutlon and defense lawyers; and thcreafter, six of the eight defendants c h g e d at a w a s conference that t h r j 'rere "phony" and part of a contintling govenucent cffort t o "frame* than. Ihb?ry !%ale iasucd a scporote afrrtcaent detrylng thdt his Fmty had cent the letters and he aacused the "'mcist Covermcnt" oP doing it "because they bow thut the rottcn racist Hoffhm has mode thmu look bad". the Black Panther Farty to "shut down the triel"; and followinl: that mnmcemmt, aad Wnaf their lm~*rs* mdvlce, he and Tom Hayden informcd the 1\cvs media thet they were! callin6 for o demonstration by tlrc- Illlcaicr Chapter of Uw Dlack Panther Party t o "shut d m the trial". Hayden ala0 claimed that Fk4trcrl nuthoritics had tmpered w1t.h the jury nnd that defence attornew would ca3.1 for a mistrial. Seals ennounced l a the early afternoon tbt he had ordered - On i?edncaday, Octobtr lst, one of thc two jurors who received a threntcnlng lettcr was excr~~cd from the jury wile3 she replied in t h e negEttvc -&cn ar.kcc1 (after reeding the letter In court) if she could s t i l l be n foir m d impartial Juror. The letter, which reed "You arc being watched" and was signed "The I3lack Prrnthcrs", h-d bccn tunc4 over t o t h s FPI bj. her fmily;. a1x1 questioning by JdGe Ifoffmm rcvcaled that the w m n had not previoiir;ly sccn it. kfense ottorircy Kunstlcr i&iately objected acd accused Judge €Ioffmm 01' having "led" the juror into saylnG she could no longer bz inpni-tial. !Pk objection wos overmlcd szd the tpmt'j-tlarec year old jmor was replaced by u twenty-two year old w m n , the first alternate. juror. A t n noon rcccss new# conferencc, defcodant Ihvc D e l l i m r accused thc Covcrnmcnt of having succeeded in "smdba&nr= onc of the Jurors of whom they were nfraid''; md stated t h a t i t "mids up t o collusion het.xcen the'judge and the Govemnt to deprive us of a f a i r me im- pirtirzl juror". hcr one of the jurors most,llkely to bc favorcihle to their cazc, rhich will rcl.y, t o n dccrce, on an explanation of thc "nee youth cultwe" otd the political and n o d a l views of young dissidents. Eie defcnd- ants hnd Lo ccnccdc, hawcvcr, that the rcplaccmcnt o c l u ~ l g l o e r c d thc clvct-ml;c we of the jury. &cause of her youth, the drlfcnse hqd cocsldcred . a . mic sccoivl Juror wlio rccclved a thrr?r\tenLvr: 1ett.w rm-tinrrd on - t h e jwy, as she .;tatcd th& it would not nffcct her ability t o be 0 ._ '. . '6 ... ..... . .... e... ..-. ...._.,. -. i ..; :,, ... .-. .\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . -. . . . ... . _ . :.- U.&,-. .: ,:- -. - . . . . . _ -. '