Former Black Panther Leader Freed From Jail

A former leader of the Black Panthers, who was convicted of killing a cop, has walked free after spending more than four decades behind bars.

Human rights groups expressed relief after Marshall "Eddie" Conway, 67,  was released from the prison in Jessup, Maryland.

A recent rally of the Black Riders, a new generation of the Black Panthers

"It just shows you that things can come right after a wrong," Tessa Hill-Aston, the president of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told CBS.

Conway was convicted in 1971 of fatally shooting 35-year-old Donald Sager as he and another officer sat in a marked patrol car.

He has always denied any participation in the attack.

His supporters said that Conway, a leading member of the controversial group, did not get a fair trial.

His release has angered the Baltimore City police union.

"It's a difficult thing to learn after all these years that he's not going to fulfil the sentence he was given, which was death," Gene Ryan, the vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the Baltimore Sun.

Conway is one of dozens of inmates who have been released after Maryland's Court of Appeals ruled in 2012 that judges had given improper instructions to juries before 1980.

The Black Panther Party gained notoriety, and made enemies, as a prominent Black Power movement in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. 

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