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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Homosexual consensual activity |
Sentence: |
50 days |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.14 |
Year Crime: |
1953 |
Year Convicted: |
1953 |
Year Cleared: |
2020 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
California |
County or Region of Crime: |
Los Angeles |
City of Crime: |
Pasadena |
Result: |
Pardoned Posthumously |
Summary of Case: |
"Bayard Rustin was posthumously pardoned by California Governor Gavin Newsom on February 5, 2020 of his 1953 conviction for having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena, California. Rustin was pardoned because the homosexual sex he was convicted of committing is no longer considered a crime." |
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"Bayard Rustin was posthumously pardoned by California Governor Gavin Newsom on February 5, 2020 of his 1953 conviction for having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena, California." |
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Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Black |
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"LGBT rights icon Bayard Rustin posthumously pardoned for 70-year-old gay-sex conviction, By Frank Miles (Fox News), New York Post, February 6, 2020" |
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https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/lgbt-rights-icon-bayard-rustin-posthumously-pardoned-for-70-year-old-gay-sex-conviction/ |
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