!*RIP: Kathleen Mary Ryan, Geronimo attorney, of Cancer

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)Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:54:48 -0700
)From: mnovi...@igc.org (Michael Novick)
)Subject: RIP: Kathleen Mary Ryan, attorney for Geronimo and spouse of
Stuart Hanlon

Wednesday, July 16, 1997
LA Times Obituaries

Kathleen Mary Ryan; Lawyer for Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt

Kathleen Mary Ryan, 46, a San Francisco attorney who volunteered legal
assistance to former Black Panther Party leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt in
the ultimately successful effort to free him from prison by overturning his
1972 murder conviction. Ryan was married to Stuart Hanlon, the attorney who
led the battle to free Pratt. Pratt is now out on bail while prosecutors
appeal. Ryan worked on a successful civil rights suit that won Pratt's
release from solitary confinement after eight years in prison, and she
worked on two unsuccessful earlier petitions to reverse his conviction. A
native of Boston, she earned a law degree at the University of San
Francisco. After her early work for Pratt, she developed a family law
practice and provided free legal services for indigent women who were going
through divorce. On Saturday in San Francisco of leukemia.

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