Tag: Bruce Lisker
Posted on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 11:18:30 AM EST
Tags: Squeaky Fromme, Bruce Lisker (all tags)
In Texas, "Squeaky" Fromme left prison today after serving 34 years on her life sentence. She's now 60. (Background here.)
In California, Bruce Lisker was released after 26 years. (Background here.)
Lisker was released on bail at 7 a.m., a week after a federal judge overturned his murder conviction, ruling that he was prosecuted with “false evidence” and his defense attorney did not adequately represent him.
What Lisker, locked up since age 17, now a bald middle-age man, is looking forward to:
[He wants] to go for bike rides on the beach and smell the ocean breeze, eat a bowl of French vanilla ice cream and go running in a straight line for as far as he wants to without having to jog in circles like he did in prison. He needs to apply for a driver’s license, get a copy of his Social Security number and birth certificate so he can find a job — another condition of his bail.
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Posted on Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 06:28:00 PM EST
Tags: Bruce Lisker, innocence cases (all tags)
Bump and Update: The judge has decided to order Lisker released on bond pending the DA's decision on whether to retry him.
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Original Post Sunday 8/9/09
In 2005, the LA Times published a 15 page online report on the conviction of Bruce Lisker. Lisker, at age 17 was charged with killing his mother. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. I wrote about it here and TChris wrote about it in 2008 here.
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