State of Georgia v. Kamau Sadiki
Formerly known as Freddie Hilton, Kamau Sadiki was convicted in 2003 of the 1971 murder and armed robbery of Atlanta Police Officer James Green, and sentenced to life imprisonment plus 10 years. In 1971, Freddie Hilton was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and later joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA) in the 1960s and 1970s. Due to a lack of evidence and witnesses’ failures to identify him in a photographic array, the case was closed in 1971. With increased c
United States v. Mutulu Shakur
Dr. Mutulu Shakur, step-father to the late Tupac Shakur, and known for his associations with the Black Liberation Army (BLA) and Revolutionary Action Movment (RAM) of the 1960s and 1970s, was convicted in 1987 to a sixty year prison sentence in the Southern District of New York for 8 counts of Racketeering. He was also accused of assisting in the escape of Assata Shakur. Teri Thompson worked extensively in advocating for his parole at statutory interim parole hearings since