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Ernest Graham

AKA: Shujaa Graham
Released
Full name:Eugene Graham
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
7 Years 4 Months
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Ernest Graham

Biography

One of the 'San Quentin Two,' convicted along with Eugene Allen of killing a guard at the Deuel Vocational Institution in 1973 and sentenced to death. Defense effort framed the case as a frame-up of Black activist prisoners. Listed as a North American political prisoner in PFOC Breakthrough magazine. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

The Tracy prisoner correspondent describes Graham and Eugene Allen in isolation after the November27,1973 guard death, the October-November1974 trial ending with a hung jury and change of venue for a planned March8,1976 San Francisco retrial. The account contests the state’s gang allegations; retain attribution and later known outcomes, without assigning a new initial-prison admission from the guard-death date. Pages14-16. Source: https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC514_scans/SLA%20Dragon/514.SLA.Dragon7.Febmarch1976.Periodical.pdf

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: Murder of a prison guard at Deuel Vocational Institution
Arrested: Jan 1, 1973
Sentenced: Apr 2, 1976
Incarcerated: Nov 27, 1973
Released: March 1981
Sentence: Death sentence imposed April 2, 1976; judgment reversed in 1979, followed by acquittal at retrial in 1981
Indicted: December 5, 1973; murder and aggravated assault by a life prisoner under Penal Code sections 187 and 4500
Convicted: No
Institution State: California