The State - News from June 29, 1988
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Former Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver was placed on three years’ probation for burglarizing a house under renovation. Cleaver was also given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 200 hours of volunteer work by Oakland Municipal Judge Horace Wheatley. The judge directed Cleaver to make restitution for taking a desk and table from the house in Oakland on Feb. 11. Cleaver pleaded no contest to misdemeanor second-degree burglary.
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