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DESCRIPTION:Chol Soo Lee* 
 (http://www.aamovement.net/history/eastwind/12/$justice1.html) will be 
 speaking at a benefit for the West Memphis Three at the Space 
 Gallery.\n\nSpace Gallery is exhibiting art by Death Row prisoner, Damien 
 Echols and others supporting the West Memphis Three (www.wm3.org).\n\nOther 
 speakers tonight include:\nWill Franken (comedian)\nLady Monster (spoken 
 word)\nSalvatore Amore (the WORLDs greatest romantic poet)\nJennifer 
 Blowdryer (spoken word)\n\nSuggested donation: $5\n\nAll artwork is also 
 for sale.\n\nAll proceeds benefit the West Memphis Three Defense 
 Fund.\n\nThis exhibit is a WM3 benefit. Damien Echols is creating more 
 pieces for this exhibit and there are pieces left from the May 12th 
 SKELETON KEY exhibit at 111 Minna. Folks will be able to purchase pieces 
 by:\n\nDamien Echols\nNorman Reedus\nMick Rock\nIoannis\nChad 
 Robertson\nGrove Pashley\nJayne County\nFloria Sigsmondi\nJonathan Richman 
 (The Modern Lovers)\n\n\n*Death Row Survivor Chol Soo Lee (1983)\n[Thanks 
 to deathpenalty.org and the ACLU]\nChol Soo Lee was convicted of first 
 degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of 
 parole. After suggestive procedures by police and prosecutors, which even 
 included hypnotizing one witness, three witnesses identified Lee in a 
 police line-up. Based on this eyewitness testimony, Lee was convicted and 
 sentenced. In 1977, during a large prison yard brawl, Lee killed another 
 inmate in self-defense. Because he was serving a life sentence for murder, 
 Lee was sentenced to death. A supportive movement of Korean-Americans and 
 other Asian Americans formed in response to publicity about the case. They 
 filed a successful writ of habeas corpus overturning Lee’s first murder 
 conviction. The second conviction and death sentence were then vacated. He 
 was given time served for the 2nd murder and released in 1983 after 
 spending ten years in prison, eight of them spent in the solitary 
 confinement on death row. It is important to note that while Lee was in 
 fact guilty of killing another inmate (in self-defense) while in prison, 
 the crime could never have occurred had he not been wrongfully convicted in 
 the first place.\n\nFREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/25/18300601.php
SUMMARY:Chol Soo Lee
LOCATION:Space Gallery, 1141 Polk Street (next door to Hemlock Tavern), San 
 Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/25/18300601.php
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