The State - News from Oct. 16, 1986

A member of the San Quentin Six has been granted a new parole hearing on a 20-year-old murder conviction and could be released from prison while the state appeals a court decision, his lawyers say. Johnny Spain’s murder convictions stemming from a 1971 San Quentin prison uprising in which six people died recently were reversed because he was shackled during the trial. The 37-year-old former Black Panther Party member was convicted of murdering two guards in an August, 1971, uprising in which militant leader George Jackson, two other prisoners and three guards were killed.