Bulletin: California; Convicted killer Kevin Cooper to be featured on CNN’s ‘Death Row Stories’ Sunday: 10:00 PM; "Cooper is represented by attorneys at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on a pro bono basis. “We hope this documentary will shed light on Kevin Cooper’s case and help prevent the State of California from executing an innocent man,” said Norman Hile, senior litigation counsel at Orrick, in a written statement."..."Cooper’s claims that he was denied his human rights during his trial and on appeal are currently pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The commission is expected to rule on Cooper’s claims this week." San Bernardino Sun.

"More than 30 years after the slaughter of a family and a young friend in what is now Chino Hills, the case of death row inmate Kevin Cooper will be the subject of an hour-long episode of CNN’s “Death Row Stories,” Sunday. Since his arrest following the June 1983 slayings of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, and her friend, Christopher Hughes, 11, Cooper has maintained his innocence, claiming he was framed by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office. Cooper is represented by attorneys at Orrick, Herrington and  Sutcliffe on a pro bono basis. “We hope this documentary will shed light on Kevin Cooper’s case and help prevent the State of California from executing an innocent man,” said Norman Hile, senior litigation counsel at Orrick, in a written statement.........Cooper’s claims that he was denied his human rights during his trial and on appeal are currently pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The commission is expected to rule on Cooper’s claims this week. “We are asking that the evidence in Kevin Cooper’s case be retested and we expect this ruling will show that the IACHR agrees he did not receive a fair trial,” said Hile. Hours before he was to be put to death in San Quentin in 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave Cooper a stay, allowing the defense to file more motions and eventually conduct new DNA results. Those tests found his DNA on several key pieces of evidence, supporting his guilt, officials said. However, Hiles still argues there is a large amount of evidence pointing to Cooper’s innocence. Cooper’s supporters point to witnesses, including Josh Ryen, stating the now 57-year-old Cooper was not the attacker but possibly “three white men.”
http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20150723/convicted-killer-kevin-cooper-to-be-featured-on-cnns-death-row-stories
See Wikipedia report: " In a dissenting opinion, Judge William A. Fletcher argued that the police may have tampered with the evidence and that the Ninth Circuit should have reheard the case en banc and should have "ordered the district judge to give Cooper the fair hearing he has never had."^[3]
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Cooper_%28inmate%29