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Panther trial judge _ urges settlement By Jay Branegan FEDERAL DISTRICT Judge John Grady on Friday * urged both sides in a $47.7 million Black Panther civil Tights case to consider settling the 10-year-old case out of court. “It will be another long, arduous trial,” said Grady, to whom the case was transferred from Judge Milton I. . Shadur. “It will cause the reliving of events extremely painful to many people in this conimunity.”* « Settling out of court, he said, “would be an act of aegal statesmanship,” : ! The case was filed by relatives of the Black Pan- « ther’s Fred Hampton, who died in a predawn police raid on Dec. 4, 1969. The defendants are then-State’s , Atty. Edward Hanrahan and various police and Feder- al Bureau of Investigation officials, An earlier trial lasted 18 months, the longest in federal history, and ended in June, 1977, with a hung jury. Judge Joseph Sam Perry then entered a verdict in favor of Hanrahan and the others, The United States Supreme Court in June ordered a new trial. GRADY ORDERED a two-week hiatus while atter- neys of both sides discuss a settlement with their clients, . “There is room for substantial concessions on both : 7 Sides. Neither should feel overly confident’? about vic- pny, he said. JENDICATS PAGE. Gace | NEWSPAPER, CIT? At EDITION j . » . | Chicago Tribune | DATE th /22/80 | ’ ENLTrU7 1 5. Rad ere AUTEOR Soeeeeerneenncer nee TITLE: CHARACTERS 44-1503 CLASSITICATION CHICLA.GS bé6 Fa Beirne cre Sache “ONt SERIA