Marshall "Eddie" Conway was an American black nationalist and a leading member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party.
14 Facts About Eddie Conway
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Eddie Conway was convicted in 1971 for the murder of a police officer.
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Eddie Conway was unaware that some of the founding members of the Baltimore chapter of the Party were undercover officers at the Baltimore Police Department who reported daily on his activities at the chapter.
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Eddie Conway was arrested the next day while working at the post office.
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Eddie Conway appealed to the court to be represented by either Charles Garry or William Kunstler, two attorneys who consistently represented party members.
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Therefore, Eddie Conway chose to absent himself from much of his January 1971 trial.
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Eddie Conway requested that his cellmate, attorney Arthur Turco, be appointed to represent him.
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Eddie Conway fired two lawyers, the first over trial strategy differences and the second one that was appointed to represent him and who Eddie Conway refused to cooperate with.
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Eddie Conway testified that while he shared a cell with Conway before the trial, Conway confessed to him.
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Eddie Conway had protested greatly when Reynolds was placed in his cell because he was a known informant.
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The prosecution argued that Reynolds' account was truthful because according to Reynolds, Eddie Conway had told him that he had taken Sierakowski's watch.
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Eddie Conway's supporters called him one of the country's longest-held political prisoners.
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Eddie Conway was later a producer at The Real News and hosted the show Rattling the Bars.
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Eddie Conway died on February 13,2023, at the age of 76.