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<font size=4><b>Appeals court rejects new trial for Black
Panther<br><br>
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</a>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed that
order.<br><br>
Woodfox, a member of the so-called Angola 3, has been convicted twice of
fatally stabbing the Louisiana State Penitentiary guard in 1972.<br><br>
The appeals court said Brady erred in concluding that Woodfox had
ineffective counsel in his second trial.<br><br>
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