The State - News from March 6, 1988
A lawyer representing mass murderer Juan V. Corona has filed an appeal with a state appellate court, challenging Corona’s 1982 Alameda County trial that found him guilty of 25 counts of first-degree murder. Corona is in Soledad state prison serving 25 years to life after having been twice convicted of murdering 25 transient farm workers in Sutter County in 1971. The motion filed with the District Court of Appeal in San Francisco by court-appointed attorney Michael A. Mendelson challenges the racial composition of the 1971 Sutter County Grand Jury that originally indicted Corona, the Sacramento Bee said.
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