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Bruce Lisker to discuss his high profile case and wrongful conviction March 8

Bruce Lisker and Paul Ingels

Bruce Lisker (L) and Paul Ingels address the media after Lisker's release in 2009. (By: cbsnews.com)

  • February 28, 2011 5:15am

Cal State East Bay Department of Criminal Justice, the Criminal Justice Club and the Forensic Science Club will host "Wrongful Convictions: The Case of  Bruce Lisker" on March 8 at 6 p.m. in the Music 1055 Recital Hall.

In March 1984, 17-year-old Bruce Lisker was convicted of brutally murdering his mother in their Los Angeles home. Despite proclaiming his innocence, Lisker was sentenced to life imprisonment. A federal judge overturned Lisker's conviction in Aug 2009, and he was released from prison after serving 26 years for a crime he did not commit. The post conviction investigation by Paul Ingels, including the analysis of forensic evidence not examined by the crime lab for the first trial, demonstrated that all of the evidence against him had been fabricated by the police detective.

Lisker and Ingels will share their story with the CSUEB community of how the criminal justice system can, in the same case, be astoundingly corrupt and amazingly just.

For more information, contact Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Keith Inman at 510-885-3206 or email keith.inman@csueastbay.edu.

Read the Los Angeles Times article, "New Light on a Distant Verdict."

Watch 48 Hours Mystery: The Whole Truth (CBS).

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