Kevin Cooper, the Death Penalty & Mass Incarceration

The San Francisco Law School and UC Hastings Chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, invite you to join their esteemed panel for a discussion of the legal issues surrounding the wrongful conviction of Kevin Cooper, the death penalty and the mass incarceration of People of Color. In 1983, Mr. Cooper was convicted and sentenced to death row for the killing of a family of four in Chino Hills, San Bernadino County. He has maintained his innocence since his arrest. Mr. Cooper was scheduled to be executed in 2004, but was granted a stay of execution by the Ninth Circuit. On May 11, 2009, his petition for habeas corpus was denied en banc, upon which five judges of the Ninth Circuit dissented, stating that they believed he was innocent based on evidence tampering by the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Department.

Mr. Cooper’s attorney, Norman C. Hile of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Carole Seligman, a member of Mr. Cooper’s Defense Committee, will serve as panelists. Mr. Cooper will be participating on the panel from San Quentin.