Charges against the officer include conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
He was acquitted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Human rights groups have accused local governments backed by federal forces of committing kidnapping, torture and murder.
Dewani, who has not yet entered pleas, faces charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder, kidnapping, and defeating the ends of justice.
The man, Bobby Brewster, 25, pleaded guilty in Logan County Circuit Court on Tuesday to second-degree sexual assault, malicious assault and conspiracy to commit kidnapping or holding hostage.
Ms. Gatto suggested that the stakes for Officer Valle, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, went far beyond his case.
Mr. Seale, now being held in a San Francisco jail, is accused of kidnapping, murder, con spiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit Murder in last May's torture slaying of another Black Pan ther, 24‐year‐old Alex Rackley of New York.
On Friday, the final defendant, Danny J. Combs, 20, pleaded guilty in a county court in Logan, W.Va., to first-degree sexual assault, assault during the commission of a felony and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
A8 Conviction in O'Hair Case A federal jury in Austin, Tex., convicted Gary Paul Karr on several charges relating to the disappearance of the atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son and her granddaughter, but acquitted Mr. Karr, 52, of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
