Information about Stuart Hanlon from the web:
www.publiccounsel.org/news/dec - [Cached]
Published on: 12/1/2000 Last Visited: 1/8/2004
Stuart Hanlon Last April Stuart Hanlon won a $4.5 million verdict for Geronimo Pratt in his civil action against the city of Los Angeles and the FBI.
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"They still deny culpability for what happened to Pratt," says Hanlon, "but you don't pay that amount of money if you didn't do anything wrong."
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After years of filing unsuccessful habeas corpus petitions in both state and federal courts, Hanlon secured Pratt's release in 1997 when an Orange County Superior Court judge found that prosecutors withheld important evidence from the defense at Pratt's 1972 trial. Hanlon and Johnnie Cochran, who also worked on the case, maintain that Pratt was framed as part of an effort by the FBI to undermine and discredit the Black Panther Party, of which Pratt was a member.
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"Nothing will ever make up for what they did to him," says Hanlon. "Taking an innocent man and framing him, locking him up for 27 years, and putting him in solitary confinement for 8. But at least he got some money and will be taken care of."
Hanlon, a name partner in the San Francisco firm of Tamburello, Hanlon & Waggener, has been working on the Pratt case since he was a third-year student at Hastings College of the Law.
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www.truecrime.net/jackolsen/pr - [Cached]
Published on: 2/8/2000 Last Visited: 7/27/2001
A few years after the original conviction in 1972 , Cochran had been joined by Stuart Hanlon , a radical law student and veteran of the student riots at Columbia University.
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Working out of a claustrophobic basement room in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District , Hanlon and his band of volunteers took eight years to convince a U.S. District Court judge to order prison officials to remove Pratt from the hole and place him in San Quentin's general population , where he was hailed as a hero.
Then came the larger task of winning his total freedom against a California attorney general's office that seemed hell-bent on keeping the dangerous revolutionary caged for life. One numbing setback followed another. A federal magistrate consulted with the FBI , then bottled up the case for five years before ruling against Pratt. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office promised a full review but failed to produce a finding in three years. Parole boards routinely voted Pratt down on the grounds that he was likely to kill again or foment a bloody revolution. Judges ducked the politically charged case , and an appellate court justice walked off the bench without explanation. A struggling Stuart Hanlon , reeling from personal tragedies of his own , routinely risked being jailed for contempt , and newly appointed assistant D.A..
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In a spectacular 1997 show trial in ultra-conservative Orange County , Cochran and Hanlon combined McCloskey's discoveries and a boldly innovative courtroom strategy to win reversal of Pratt's original conviction.
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2. LAST MAN STANDING
www.mjq.net/jackolsen/pratt.ht - [Cached]
Published on: 12/1/1999 Last Visited: 6/16/2001
A few years after the original conviction in 1972 , Cochran had been joined by Stuart Hanlon , a radical law student and veteran of the student riots at Columbia University.
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Working out of a claustrophobic basement room in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District , Hanlon and his band of volunteers took eight years to convince a U.S. District Court judge to order prison officials to remove Pratt from the hole and place him in San Quentin's general population , where he was hailed as a hero.
Then came the larger task of winning his total freedom against a California attorney general's office that seemed hell-bent on keeping the dangerous revolutionary caged for life. One numbing setback followed another. A federal magistrate consulted with the FBI , then bottled up the case for five years before ruling against Pratt. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office promised a full review but failed to produce a finding in three years. Parole boards routinely voted Pratt down on the grounds that he was likely to kill again or foment a bloody revolution. Judges ducked the politically charged case , and an appellate court justice walked off the bench without explanation. A struggling Stuart Hanlon , reeling from personal tragedies of his own , routinely risked being jailed for contempt , and newly appointed assistant D.A. Johnnie Cochran almost lost his prestigious job by insisting to his boss that Pratt had been railroaded by the selfsame D.A's office.
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In a spectacular 1997 show trial in ultra-conservative Orange County , Cochran and Hanlon combined McCloskey's discoveries and a boldly innovative courtroom strategy to win reversal of Pratt's original conviction. |
