Summary
THE e-mail from Frankie resonates with both hope and despair. Its cry of anguish is a plea for help while there's still time for help to make a difference. Its message of hope involves a belief that the public will respond to free a man who is in prison for his bad judgment as a boy.
The man's name is Brandon Hein. He was 18 when a brawl among teenagers resulted in the death of a policeman's son, James Farris, 16, in 1995. Although another boy confessed to wielding the knife that killed Farris, Hein was sentenced to life without parole under California's stringent felony murder rule for just being there.See the full content of this document
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Man Pays for Bad Judgment As a Boy
He was one of five young men who had gone to a backyard "fort" in Agoura Hills to buy or steal marijuana they believed was there. During an ensuing fight, Fa...
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