COINTELPRO target Geronimo Pratt dead in African village
m.examiner.com | Jun 6th 2011 10:35 AM
Elmer Geronimo “Ji Jaga” Pratt is dead at 63 in his adopted African home of
Imbaseni Village in Tanzania. Pratt is reported to have died of complications
of malaria and heart disease. Pratt was born September 13, 1947 in Morgan
City, Louisiana.
Geronimo Pratt is known to most people for his 27-year imprisonment on murder
charges where he had been convicted in a trial tainted by withheld evidence and
convicted on the testimony of an informer. Ordered freed in 1997, after years
in solitary confinement, the former Black Panther leader eventually won $4.5
million dollars in a false imprisonment civil action.
The case of Geronimo Pratt was recently cited in Nebraska by the American Civil
Liberties Union in an amicus brief urging the Nebraska Supreme Court to grant a
new trial to Omaha Two ex-Black Panther leader Ed Poindexte r. The state high
court denied Poindexter’s appeal and ignored similar misconduct in Pratt’s case
as unimportant.
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