{"id":9316,"date":"2009-07-01T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2009-07-01T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:29:21","slug":"herman-bell-pleads-guilty-to-reduced-charge-of-voluntary-manslaughter-for-a-sentence-of-five-years-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9316","title":{"rendered":"Herman Bell Pleads Guilty to Reduced Charge of Voluntary Manslaughter For a Sentence of Five Years Probation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolores Michelsen
\nLAW OFFICES OF HANLON & RIEF
\n179 11th Street, 2nd Floor
\nSan Francisco, CA 94103<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government, through an informant, originally alleged that Mr. Bell was the shooter of Sgt Young. However, it is difficult to believe that the Attorney General of California, who prosecuted this case, would have allowed Mr. Bell to plead to a lesser charge with a sentence of only informal probation if there was credible evidence he had shot Sgt. Young. <\/p>\n

Bell and his co-defendants have always maintained that, because of the torture used by the New Orleans Police Department to gain alleged confessions and the lack of new evidence, these charges should never have been brought. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The government tortured him for two and a half years to get this guilty plea. Justice?<\/p>\n

SF County Jail\u2019s cruel and unusual punishment of Herman Bell of the San Francisco 8
\nby Nancy Jacot-Bell, Bay View<\/em>, 24 October 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Herman<\/a>

Herman Bell could hold his granddaughters Simone, 6, Sage, 3, before he was transferred in May \u201807 from a New York prison to the San Francisco County Jail. Now baby Simone tries to \u201ctear away the glass\u201d that separates them \u201cwith her little fingers.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Introductory note by Kiilu Nyasha: Herman Bell and Jail Muntaqim (aka Anthony Bottom) have been unjustly incarcerated in New York prisons for 35 and 37 years, respectively, are currently eligible for parole and by rights should have been returned to New York for parole hearings in July. Instead, they have been kept in solitary 24\/7 lockup in the SF County Jail for nearly two years now on still more charges stemming from a \u201ccold case\u201d of the murder of a police officer in August 1971. For more information, go to www.freethesf8.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Herman Bell arrived in the Bay Area from New York in late May 2007 to face this extremely unjust prosecution of eight former Black Panthers and community activists from the late 1960s forward.<\/p>\n

This prosecution is based on revenge and intimidation of anyone who attempts to change things for the better in this steadily devolving society \u2013 not to mention throwing California and San Francisco taxpayers\u2019 resources down the toilet in a very big way.<\/p>\n

Every day since May \u201807 has been a complete nightmare for Herman and our family. Confinement in the San Francisco County Jail has been devastating to what little quality of life Herman \u2013 as well as Jalil Muntaqim, who is also confined there \u2013 has experienced in New York prisons for three decades.<\/p>\n

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