Ken & Terry To Face Inquisition

KEN & TERRY TO FACE INQUISITION 

Ken Kelley and Terry Taube, both former members of the White Panther Party, have been subpoeaned to testify before a Federal Grand Jury in Detroit, in connection with Leslie Bacon and the Capitol bombing. Ken and Terry lived at the Mayday Tribe's house in Washington with Leslie last April, working to get together groups for the big free concert May 1st. They're back in town now, and were planning to leave on a cross-country tour when they were subpoeaned. Now they may spend a long, indefinite amount of time in jail.

Under the Federal Immunity Act of 1970, the government may grant you immunity from prosecution, in which case your fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination no longer apply. With immunity, you must testify or stay in jail until you do, or until the Grand Jury term is over. This can take more than a year. Leslie Bacon is now in jail in Seattle, Washington, held for the ransomous figure of $100,000 for refusing to testify, not because she's been found guilty of any crime.

The government is increasingly reluctant to operate political trials in open courtrooms, because they're finding that they can't control the juries as much as they thought, witness the recent release of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, and the Panther 21 in New York. So they've decided to use the Grand Jury, a process where they completely control the situation, behind closed doors (no press access whatsoever). Now people can be tried, judged and sentenced in one neat maneuver, without the troublesome sticky-business of constitutional rights getting in the way.

Ken and Terry have been ordered to appear in front of the Grand Jury at the Federal Building in Detroit on Tuesday, June 15, at 9 a. m. The only people allowed inside the interrogation chamber will be Guy Goodwin, a top Just-us Department flunkie, the Grand Jury, and one defendant at a time. Consultation with a lawyer is only permitted outside of the courtroom. Ken and Terry have vowed to refuse to answer questions put to them, "not because we have anything to hide. We don't. The government is the only one interested in hiding things, making their jury a secret affair. "

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