Parole Denied for Former Black Panther ‘Geronimo’ Pratt
Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt was denied parole Thursday for the 16th time since the 1968 murder of a Santa Monica teacher during an $18 robbery.
Pratt is serving a life sentence for a murder he says the FBI knows he did not commit. Last month, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered prosecutors to respond to Pratt’s request that his murder conviction be overturned.
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