1. Stuart Hanlon is an attorney based in San Francisco, California who represented San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, Geronimo Pratt and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
12 Facts About Stuart Hanlon
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Stuart Hanlon graduated from Columbia University in 1970, where he became involved with the radical politics of the '60s.
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In 1975, Hanlon graduated from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
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Stuart Hanlon was known at Hastings for wearing flowing Moroccan robes and distributing politically militant leaflets.
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In 1975, as a third-year law student at Hastings, Stuart Hanlon volunteered to work as a paralegal on prisoner rights cases at San Quentin State Prison.
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Stuart Hanlon met Geronimo Pratt ; the year before Pratt had been denied a hearing by both the California Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court.
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At one visit, Stuart Hanlon found a steel-tipped Afro comb on his chair.
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Stuart Hanlon represented Sara Jane Olson, Emily Harris and William Harris, three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, for the 1975 murder of a Sacramento woman during a bank robbery in which they were joined by Patty Hearst.
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Stuart Hanlon represented and won the acquittal of another member of the SLA, Russell Little, for his role in the murder of Oakland, California School Superintendent Marcus Foster.
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In 2003, Stuart Hanlon defended San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Greg Suhr against charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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Six weeks after Stuart Hanlon won Pratt a new trial, his wife, attorney Kathleen Ryan, 46, died of leukemia.
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The prospects of an extremely extended trial for Olson, in which Hearst was expected to be called as a witness by the prosecution, caused Stuart Hanlon to withdraw as defense counsel so he could be with his family.