In April of 1979 the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a landmark decision, overturned the trial judge, finding that the FBI defendants and their government lawyers obstructed justice by suppressing the BPP files. Most significantly, the Court of Appeals also concluded that there was serious evidence to support the conclusion that the FBI, Hanrahan, and his men, in planning and executing the raid, had participated in a conspiracy designed to subvert and eliminate the Black Panther Party and its members, thereby suppressing a vital radical Black political organization. The Court further found there to be substantial evidence that these defendants also participated in a post-raid conspiracy to cover up evidence regarding the raid, to conceal the true character of their pre-raid and raid activities, to harass the survivors of the raid, and to frustrate any legal redress the survivors might seek. This decision withstood a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, and stands today as judicial recognition of outrageous Federal and local conspiratorial criminality and cover-up. huffingtonpost/g-flint-taylor/the-fbi-cointelpro-progra_b_4375527.html
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