The U.S. Navy's conviction of 50 African-American seamen for mutiny at Port Chicago during World War II was surely a nadir in America's military past. But attorneys at Morrison & Foerster have helped write a new and happier chapter for one of the men unjustly convicted in the case stemming from the Contra Costa County, Calif. port. Last month, MoFo lawyers obtained a presidential pardon for Freddie Meeks, one of the three surviving men convicted in the so-called Port Chicago Mutiny.
January 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The U.S. Navy’s conviction of 50 African-American seamen for mutiny at Port Chicago during World War II was surely a nadir in America’s military past.
But now attorneys at Morrison & Foerster have helped write a new and happier chapter for one of the men unjustly convicted in the case stemming from the Contra Costa County, Calif. port.
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