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DESCRIPTION:Lawyering for the People: Kevin Cooper, the Death Penalty & Mass 
 Incarceration\n\nA panel presented by the San Francisco Law School & UC 
 Hastings Chapters of the National Lawyers Guild\n\nWhen: Friday, November 
 6, 2015\nWhere: UC Hastings College of Law\nRoom A, 198 McAllister 
 Street\nSan Francisco, CA\nTime: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.\n\nPlease join our 
 esteemed panel for a discussion of the legal issues surrounding the 
 wrongful conviction of Kevin Cooper, the death penalty and mass 
 incarceration of People of Color.\n\nIn 1983, Kevin Cooper was convicted 
 and sentenced to death row for the killing of a family of four in Chino 
 Hills, San Bernardino 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 9th Circuit. On May 11, 2009, his petition for 
 habeas corpus was denied en banc, upon which five judges of the 9th Circuit 
 dissented, stating that they believed he was innocent based on evidence 
 tampering by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.\n\nPANELISTS\n\nKEVIN 
 COOPER\n\nMr. Cooper will be participating on the panel from San 
 Quentin.\n\nAMIR VARICK AMMA, Organizer, All of Us or None\n\nMr. Amma is a 
 survivor of New York State’s draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws, and was 
 wrongfully sentenced to 25 years to life. After serving over 19 years, Mr. 
 Amma was released from prison and earned his BA in Social Work from Lehman 
 College. Mr. Amma has over 20 years of experience as a community activist 
 for such organizations as ComAlert, the Drug Policy Alliance, and Samaritan 
 Village out of NY.\n\nBICKA BARLOW, Law Office of Bicka Barlow\n\nPrior to 
 establishing her private law practice specializing in forensic DNA 
 evidence, Ms. Barlow was the San\nFrancisco Public Defender’s Office sole 
 DNA Attorney for 8 years, and Research Attorney for the San Francisco 
 Superior Court. She received her BS in Genetics from UC Berkeley, MS in 
 Genetics and Developmental Biology from Cornell University, and JD from the 
 University of San Francisco School of Law.\n\nNORMAN C. HILE, Senior 
 Counsel, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe\n\nMr. Hile has represented Mr. 
 Cooper since 2003. Mr. Hile served on the Ninth Circuit Advisory Board from 
 2007 to 2011, and as Chair of the Judicial Advisory Board, Eastern District 
 of California from 1998 to 2000. He received his BA from Yale University 
 and JD from Columbia University.\n\nCAROLE SELIGMAN, Kevin Cooper Defense 
 Committee\n\nMs. Seligman is a retired elementary school teacher, parent 
 and grandparent, is a member of the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal, the co-editor of Socialist Viewpoint magazine, and the office 
 manager at Prison Radio.\n\nFor additional information, please contact San 
 Francisco Law School NLG Representative Tarina Yasmoothr at 
 tarinalarsen@gmail.com.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/29/18779368.php
SUMMARY:Lawyering for the People : Kevin Cooper, the Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration
LOCATION:UC Hastings College of Law\nRoom A, 198 McAllister St.\nSan Francisco, CA 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/29/18779368.php
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