Tony Serra
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Tony Serra courtroom sketch by Paulette Frankl
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| Born |
J. Tony Serra December 30, 1934 San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education |
Stanford University, B.A. University of California, Berkeley, J.D. |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
J. Tony Serra is an American civil rights lawyer, activist and tax resister from San Francisco.
Serra received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC-Berkeley. While at law school, Serra was a contributor to the California Law Review.
He was the subject of the 1989 movie True Believer about a Chinatown (San Francisco) murder case in which he won an acquittal for Chol Soo Lee, the defendant. He also successfully defended Black Panther leader Huey Newton in a murder trial and represented individuals from groups as diverse and politically charged as the White Panthers, Hells Angels, Good Earth, and New World Liberation Front (NWLF). Some of these individuals include Brownie Mary, Dennis Peron, Hooty Croy, Ellie Nesler, and Symbionese Liberation Army members Sara Jane Olson, Russell Little and Michael Bortin. Serra, in 2004, won an acquittal during a retrial on murder charges for co-defendant Rick Tabish in the death of casino mogul Ted Binion.
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