Bruce Lisker
| Bruce E. Lisker | |
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Bruce Lisker in 2012.
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| Born |
Baby Boy Johnson (adopted) 1965 Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys, California |
| Residence | San Fernando Valley, California |
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| Known for | Being wrongly convicted in the March 1983 murder of his adoptive mother, Dorka. He was exonerated and released from prison in August 2009. |
| Home town | Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
| Weight | 160 |
| Criminal charge | CA Penal Code § 187; Murder, Second Degree |
| Criminal penalty | 16 years to life |
| Criminal status | Convicted (1985). Conviction overturned (2009) |
| Spouse(s) | Kara Noble (married 2011) |
| Parent(s) | Dorka Grace Lisker (1916-1983) Robert Bruce Lisker (1926-1995) |
| Website | brucelisker.com/ |
Bruce Lisker, an American male, at age 17 was wrongly arrested, tried, and convicted for the March 10, 1983 murder of his mother, Dorka, 66, in the family's Sherman Oaks residence.
Lisker served more than 26 years of a 16-years-to-life sentence in California prisons, including the California Youth Authority (now California Division of Juvenile Justice; 1986-7), San Quentin State Prison (1987-9), and Mule Creek State Prison (1989-2009). His conviction was overturned in a 2009 ruling by United States district court judge Virginia A. Phillips, in which she found that his 1985 conviction was obtained through use of false evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel.
Lisker was freed on August 13, 2009.
After initially declaring that Lisker would be retried for the murder of his mother, on September 21, 2009, the Los Angeles County District Attorney instead dropped all charges, admitting that they were unable to proceed with their prosecution of Lisker due to a lack of evidence.
On August 13, 2011, Lisker married Kara Noble, a woman he had met during his time in prison, on the 2-year anniversary of his release.
On October 15, 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported that Lisker had agreed to a tentative settlement in his lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles in which he "accused police detectives of fabricating evidence to put him behind bars for 26 years." On January 19, 2016, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to the terms of that proposed settlement, awarding $7.6 million to Lisker. Confidential memos from the City Attorney to the Council, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, called Lisker's case "extremely dangerous" for the city should it be put to a jury, and said the results of doing so could be "financially devastating." City Councilman Paul Krekorian, who heads the budget committee that weighs settlement payments, called Lisker's case the “very unfortunate” result of police misconduct in the past, but that it did not reflect how the department operates today.
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