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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway
At the request of: Baltimore Branch of the NAACP, c/o/Tessa Hill-Aston, President
Address: 8 West 26th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Telephone: 410-366-3300
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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A Pardon for Marshall "Eddie" Conway
FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2011 Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly to introduce and secure adoption of Senate and House Resolutions urging the Governor to grant a pardon to Marshall "Eddie" Conway, and urging the Governor to act favorably upon the request of the Baltimore City Delegation.
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Recitals
On March 5, 2001 the Baltimore City Council adopted a resolution for the purpose of supporting the 2001 Maryland General Assembly's House Joint Resolution 24 that urged then-Governor Glendening to grant a pardon to Marshall "Eddie" Conway. The Resolution stated that Conway, a former member of the Baltimore Black Panther Party, was primarily convicted on the questionable and self-serving testimony of a jail house informant of killing one Baltimore City police officer and wounding a second officer, in 1969.
It held further that: "the request for a pardon for Mr. Conway must be evaluated both in terms of who testified against him and the context of the time period during which he was convicted. During the late...
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