Geronimo Pratt: Black Panther, Tupac's Godfather Dies at 63

I wish brother Ji Jagga had been able to live much longer in order to enjoy what time these scoundrels had deprived him at such a young age. I still believe as an investigator, Johnnie Cochran was determined after his embarrassment as Pratt's lawyer in 1972 to get him out of that hellish predicament the US Gov't and CAL placed him, even if it meant destroying his career in 1997. Cochran knew of and stated he was going along with entering a stipulation regarding exculpatory evidence being withheld from the jury in the OJ Simpson Murder Trial. That evidence, Exhibit 35 Juditha Brown Phone Records, would have placed Simpson on a flight to Chicago while his wife, Nicole, talked on the telephone to her mother, Juditha Brown. This is the evidence we believe haunted LA's justice system and its cowardly judges and DAs. The threat of Cochran allowing this evidence to arise allowed the Pratt case to leave LA County and land in Orange County's gutsy Judge and former Marine Officer, Everett Dickey, who despite LA judges' and Gil Garcetti's protest freed Pratt from prison. One of OJ Simpson's African American private investigators writes about this episode in a recent book entitled "PURSUIT OF EXHIBIT 35 in the OJ Simpson Murder Trial".