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(AP) Jun 21, 2010
NEW ORLEANS A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court's
decision to grant a new trial to a former member of the Black Panther
Party who was convicted of murdering a Louisiana prison guard.
U.S. District Judge James Brady had ruled in 2008 that Albert
Woodfox's defense counsel in his retrial was ineffective. He ordered
the state to try him for a third time or drop the case.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed that order.
Woodfox, a member of the so-called Angola 3, has been convicted twice
of fatally stabbing the Louisiana State Penitentiary guard in 1972.
The appeals court said Brady erred in concluding that Woodfox had
ineffective counsel in his second trial.
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