Biography
Larry Justice was already imprisoned in California by 1967 on sentences for grand auto theft and assault with a deadly weapon, with a federal bank-robbery hold also reported. He was confined in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center beginning in July 1971. Prison officials charged Justice and Earl Gibson on July 21, 1971 with assaulting an informant and murdering guard Leo Davis. An all-white Marin County jury convicted them of murder and assault on April 18, 1973. The reviewed sources do not establish Justice’s final release date.
Contemporary prison-support account and limits
The Anvil’s eyewitness account explicitly dates a San Rafael trial visit to April 3, 1973 and names Larry Justice with his co-defendant Earl Gibson. It describes both as twenty-eight and already confined in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center since July 1971, while distinguishing Larry’s earlier imprisonment beginning in 1967 from Earl’s beginning in 1965. This independently confirms custody and a trial-day observation, not a new admission or release. The article describes a pending verdict and advocates acquittal; that prediction is not recorded as an actual acquittal and does not replace the later April 18 conviction already in this profile. The reported age is retained as source context, not converted into an exact birth date. The cover names Earl Gibson and Larry Justice together on a two-person illustration but does not explicitly map each name to a separate face, so no individual portrait crop is guessed.
The Anvil, United Prisoners Union, volume 1 number 1, April cover; original pages 1, 3, 8.
A first-person San Quentin letter published in September 1971 identifies Justice as Lawrance Justice, inmate B-15185. He and Earl Gibson said that prison officials charged them while they were already incarcerated, and attributed the prosecution and prolonged Adjustment Center isolation to their efforts to expose prison conditions. These are the prisoners' allegations.
Muhammad Speaks, September10,1971 (available first32pages), PDF page 3.
