Rebecca's Background

  • Co-chaired Racial Justice Committee, 7 years
  • Co-chaired Public Defenders for Racial Justice, 6 years
  • Developed two Bay Area trainings on helping public defenders develop race conscious representation

SF Public Defender, Private Attorney Team Up to Exonerate Man Who Spent 46 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A San Francisco public defender and a private attorney found evidence and witnesses in and outside the U.S. that now has led to charges being vacated against Zachary Vanderhorst, 65, who had been imprisoned for 46 years after guilty pleas he made 1974 when he was not guilty.

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