Lonnie Darden

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:California
Support
Black Liberation Black Panther Party
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Biography

Lonnie Darden was a Black Panther Party member arrested outside Oakland’s Lamp Post Bar and Restaurant on December 21, 1974. Party members had confronted Leonard Jenkins after seeing him attempt to break into the restaurant’s storehouse, but responding police arrested the Panthers instead and accused them of assault, robbery and carrying concealed weapons. Bail for Lonnie Darden was set at $10,000. Oakland Municipal Court dismissed every charge in January 1975 after Jenkins, the prosecution’s only witness, failed to appear. The available reports do not give an exact release date.

Case

Charges: Assault, robbery and carrying concealed weapons
Arrested: Dec 21, 1974
Sentence: No sentence. Oakland Municipal Court dismissed every charge after the prosecution’s only witness failed to appear; exact custody endpoints have not been located.
Judge: Allen Broussard — dismissal of the December 1974 Lamp Post charges (The Black Panther, January 25, 1975, pp. 2–3)
Convicted: No

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