Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ruchell Magee" in English language version.
Moses Shepherd, one of the three blacks on the jury, was the holdout ...
Gary D. Thomas, 29, former assistant district attorney crippled by a bullet wound in the spine during the shooting, testified secretly before the Marin County grand jury that he saw Magee, 32, a life-termer at San Quentin state prison, kill Judge Harold Haley. The sealing of Thomas' testimony was ordered last January to prevent pretrial publicity damaging to Magee ... it became public when an unedited transcript was attached to a petition filed with the state Court of Appeals in San Francisco by attorneys for Magee's codefendant, Angela Davis ...
Magee, kicked and spat on his attorney recently and called the new judge in the case 'a Ku Klux Klan man in disguise.' Magee was eventually taken out of the courtroom in chains ... Shortly after the Judge ... opened the hearing, Magee, although chained to his chair, raised his legs and kicked Ernest W. Graves, his court-appointed lawyer, on the shoulder and face with such force that the lawyer was knocked to the floor. Magee's legs were then chained, but he continued berating the lawyers and the judge, and spat on Graves. Finally Judge Arnason ordered guards to remove Magee from the courtroom so Michael Tigar, one of Miss Davis' lawyers, could go on with his arguments for dismissal of the indictment.
The sole holdout against conviction for ... was Moses Shepherd, a Black.
... the first trial jury had been unanimous in finding Magee not guilty of first degree murder and kidnapping for extortion [and] voted 11–1 to acquit Magee of simple kidnapping charges and 11–1 to convict him of second-degree murder.
