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DA Wants Sugar Bear’s Blood
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
24 Oct 2017
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Courts threw out Robert “Sugar Bear” Lark’s conviction in a 1979 murder because Blacks had been systematically kept off Philadelphia juries. The city’s District Attorney is now demanding that a new jury put the 63 year-old Lark to death. Although Lark is “not a political prisoner in the traditional sense of the word,” said longtime Mumia Abu Jamal supporter Dr. Johanna Fernandez, Lark seems to have been “targeted because of his outspokenness against political corruption and police misconduct in Philadelphia.”

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