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Earlier this week, the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of a police officer were announced. But according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, torture had been used to build a case against these men in 1973--in 1974, a court ruled that police had engaged in torture to extract a confession. Vince Warren, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, tells us why the case was re-opened, and talks about the legal significance of the indictments.