Bruce Lisker




Bruce Lisker: redemption Bruce Lisker is the true story of an innocent man wrongly convicted of murder. In March 1984, 17 years old Bruce Lisker was convicted of brutally murdering his mother in their home in Los Angeles.

Despite proclaiming his innocence, Bruce Lisker was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to San Quentin. On 13 August 2009, a federal judge overturned the conviction of Bruce Lisker and to the accompaniment of television cameras and the headlines, he was released from prison in California after serving 26 years for a crime that he did not commit.

A federal judge overturned the conviction after finding that he had been convicted of "perjury" and that his original lawyer did not adequately represent him.

The judge's findings mirror those of a Times investigation in 2005 that raised questions about the key elements of the case against Bruce Lisker and exposed the murder investigation Los Angeles Police Department as sloppy and incomplete. In March 1983, Bruce Lisker said he found his mother beaten and stabbed in Sherman family home and called paramedics Oaks.

Detectives were immediately suspicious of Bruce Lisker, a curly-haired 17-year-olds with a history of drug abuse and fighting with her mother. His relationship with his parents deteriorated so badly that they paid for him to live in a studio nearby.