California
Alameda County
Huey Newton was convicted of the 1967 manslaughter of an Oakland Patrolman. His conviction was overturned in 1970.
Los Angeles County
- Francisco "Franky" Carrillo was convicted of the 1991 murder of Donald Sarpy. His conviction was reversed by the Los Angeles County Superior Court on March 14, 2011, after he had served twenty years in prison.
- Geronimo Pratt, a Black Panther leader, was convicted in 1972 of the 1968 murder of a white school teacher. He was exonerated in 1997.
Read more about this topic: Overturned Convictions In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word california:
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Angela Carter (1940–1992)