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Sean O'Brien Support

In 2004, at 16 years old, I was wrongfully convicted and sentenced in adult court to Life Without the Possibility of Parole for a crime that occurred in 2003.  I had absolutely no involvement. 

At 16 years old, I was arrested on charges of First Degree Felony-Murder in El Dorado County, California. Besides the alleged 'confessions' of two young men who were guilty of the crime and a handful of their friends, the police had nothing to base their suspicion on. To this day they have even less. There is no factual evidence to substantiate any of their claims. There is not one shred of physical evidence tying me to the crime. I have lost half my life to a crime I had no involvement with due to the misconduct and manipulation of law enforcement and prosecutors.

My family is tirelessly fighting to bring me home. In 2015 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower courts’ denial of my appeals and granted me an Evidentiary Hearing stating that "O'Brien's state Habeas petition alleged facts that if accepted as true, showed that trial counsel failed to introduce available evidence that would have significantly strengthened O'Brien's defense. Indeed, if believed, the additional evidence would have rendered it virtually impossible for O'Brien to have committed the murder with which he was charged, given the location of the murder and the state's theory as to when it took place."

In January 2017 my Evidentiary Hearing was held in Sacramento, CA. Yet I am still waiting for the ruling, wasting precious time and resources. We desperately need more support to get my case heard and to bring me home. Please help us get my case out there and to have the truth finally be heard.  100% of all donations will be used for legal fees and for my health care once I am free.

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Sean O'Brien
Organizer
Sacramento, CA

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