[Ppnews] Attorney Tim Ashford on the withheld 911 tape of the Omaha Two case
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Attorney Tim Ashford on the withheld 911 tape of the Omaha Two case
* October 7th, 2010 10:49 am ET
* By
<http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports>Michael
Richardson, COINTELPRO Examiner
Omaha attorney Tim Ashford is representing Mondo
we Langa (formerly David Rice) in his effort to
gain a new trial for the August 1970 bombing murder of a policeman.
Ashford, who grew up a few blocks down on the
same street where patrolman Larry Minard was
murdered, has filed a request with the 8th
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for a new
trial. The court has not yet acted on the request.
Ashford explains that he took on the case because
it was apparent that justice was not done in the
1971 trial which was marred by conflicting police
testimony and withheld evidence by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation regarding the identity of
the anonymous 911 caller that lured Minard to his death.
Mondo and Ed Poindexter were leaders of the
Nebraska chapter of the Black Panthers called the
National Committee to Combat Fascism. Both men
were targets of J. Edgar Hoovers clandestine war
on domestic political activists, Operation COINTELPRO,
Paul Young, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the
Omaha FBI office, had promised Hoover in a secret
December 1969 COINTELPRO memorandum that he would
target the leaders for counter-intelligence
measures in the near future. Hoover chastised
Young for not producing results and told him to
be imaginative in getting the Panther leaders off the Omaha streets.
The day Minard died, Young conferred with Glen
Gates, the Assistant Chief of Police, and offered
to send the 911 tape to the national FBI crime
lab for analysis--with no written report to be
issued. When Ivan Willard Conrad, the crime lab
director, got the COINTELPRO memo from Young
about withholding a report on the identity of
Minards killer he called Hoover to discuss the request.
Hoover told Conrad to do it and the exchange
was noted by Conrad on the memo which he
initialed and dated. The jury that ultimately
convicted Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa never
got to hear the voice of Minards killer.
Tim Ashford talks about Hoovers order to cancel
the lab report with thinly veiled contempt. They
withheld, the FBI, the mighty FBI, withheld a
memo regarding the 911 tape
..These are political prisoners.
Ashford says the COINTELPRO memo, illustrates
clearly a motive by the police, imputed to the
prosecution, to withhold the 911 tape from Mondo
and co-defendant Poindexter from making any use of the tape at Mondos trial.
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