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-- working with a local Baltimore WombWork Productions play for the public titled, "The Birth of Peace."
Current Efforts to Free Conway
Throughout his imprisonment, Maryland's Parole Board denied him on executive orders to keep "lifers" in prison, except the aged or terminally ill. Meanwhile, a habeas petition was sent to Maryland's Supreme Court to let a Clemency Petition be sent to the governor. The Baltimore NAACP chapter, various church leaders, and some members of Maryland's General Assembly, Baltimore City Council, and the community also voiced support.
More recently a federal habeas petition was filed, requesting a review of state rulings and a new trial, "based on the fact that I did not receive a fair trial in accordance with both the 6th and 14th Amendments."
After 40 years, Conway remains imprisoned, but hopeful and grateful to his supporters. In a recent 2010 letter, he reiterated that he was incarcerated "because of what I believe, not for anything that I have done," then said he delayed writing pending release of his book, "The Greatest Threat."
It "examines the plight of the Black Panther Party Political Prisoners/POWs and the role of the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program in their imprisonment." In 2011, his next book will be released, titled "Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther."
His new legal team is also researching new ways to win his release, long overdue for an innocent man after 40 years for a crime he didn't commit.
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald
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