Law Practice
Dec. 21, 2004
'Credible Threat'
SAN FRANCISCO - John Burris was motoring east across the Bay Bridge in his canary-yellow Fiat convertible on St. Patrick's Day 1979 when a radio news flash reported that police had just shot a sniper at a nearby Oakland freeway ramp. The sniper turned out to be a black 15-year-old with a pellet gun; he'd been shot eight times in the back.
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