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In one of the "trials of the century" and with startling relevance to today, Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton faced the death penalty for shooting a white policeman in a fatal car stop in 1967 Oakland. While Newton and his maverick attorneys boldly indicted racism in the courts and the country, and a groundbreaking jury led by a historic Black foreman deliberated Newton's fate, the streets of Oakland and the nation were set to explode if the jury, as expected, convicted him of murder.