San Quentin Six

I came across this poster while sorting some old files.  Sam Gross (now at Michigan Law and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations) and I worked on this case in the summer of 1972, after our 2L year at Boalt Hall.

The Wikipedia page for the case is here.

Comments

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

Did you work on behalf of specific defendants or attorneys? One of my favorite books by a Leftist defense attorney from that period is Charles Garry's* (with Art Goldberg) Streetfighter in the Courtroom: The People's Advocate (E.P. Dutton, 1977). As you no doubt know, Garry worked on behalf of Johnny Spain (although as I understand it, the group agreed to fight the case together), a Black Panther and the youngest defendant (Garry said Spain's story was 'the story of American racism'), who was paroled in 1988.

* b. Garabed Hagop Robutlay Garabedian