January 13, 1972 (vol. 82, iss. 78) • Page Image 1
…. Sinclair By GERI SPRUNG John Sinclair, founder of the radical White Panther Party (now Rainbow People's Party) who had been serving a nine and a half to ten year sentence for possession of two marijuana cig- arettes, was released from jail Decem- ber 13 on $2,500 bond pending appeal. The bond grant, ordered by the state Supreme Court, came shortly before Governor William Milliken signed into law the new drug bill reducing penal- ties for us...…