Legal Progress: Most Recent First

 

 

Date                     

 

  Event

07-15-2002            

 

 The FreeBruce.org web site is officially launched.

05-31-2001            

 

 My sixth Parole Consideration Hearing held nine months late.  Parole is denied for two years.

08-11-1999            

 

 My fifth Parole Consideration Hearing, held three months late.  Parole is denied for one year.

05-13-1998            

 

 My fourth Parole Consideration Hearing.  Parole is denied for one year.

06-28-1996            

 

  John "Mike" Ryan, Jr., my mother's likely killer, commits suicide by heroin and alcohol overdose in his Pacifica, California apartment.

05-15-1996            

 

 My third Parole Consideration Hearing, held six months late.  Parole is denied for two years.

11-10-1993            

 

 My second Parole Consideration Hearing.  Parole is denied for 2 two years.

01-02-1990            

 

  My Initial Parole Consideration Hearing before the Board of Prison Terms -- my first chance to be released.  The Board denies me parole for two years, at that time the maximum allowable duration.

Jan, 1990              

 

 The State destroys all of the evidence and court exhibits in my case.

11-09-1989            

 

 I arrive at Mule Creek State Prison, thirty miles south of Sacramento, California.

04-25-1989            

 

 My first petition for writ of habeas corpus is denied for "Failure to allege sufficient facts."

12-22-1988            

 

 My direct appeal is denied.

10-24-1987            

 

 I arrive at San Quentin State Prison, located in Marin County, California.

03-13-1986            

 

 I arrive at the California Youth Authority's Youth Training School facility (YTS), in Ontario, California.
11-21-1985              The jury returns their verdict -- Guilty of Murder in the Second Degree, committed With the Use of a Deadly and Dangerous Weapon, a knife.
03-10-1983    My mother's murder, and my arrest.