OAKLAND — A Bay Space man has been resentenced from 60 years to life to 11 years with credit score for 10, 4 years after he received his attraction within the killing of an award-winning East Bay artist, court docket data present.
Gregory Corridor, 68, pleaded no contest to homicide and acquired an 11-year jail time period that was finalized final yr, data present. In 2016, he was sentenced to life with no probability for parole till after 60 yrs for fatally stabbing 67-year-old Michael Thorn Bradley in 2012.
However two years after his sentence, Corridor’s homicide conviction was overturned when a California appeals court docket dominated that Decide Allan Hymer shouldn’t have allowed Corridor to be questioned a couple of misdemeanor knife possession conviction throughout his trial. Corridor took the stand and testified he wasn’t a violent particular person, which Hymer dominated opened the door to questioning concerning the prior knife case.
First District Appellate Court docket justices wrote, although, that the misdemeanor conviction “didn't contradict any assertion defendant made on the stand, or to the police, and it remained extremely prone to be misunderstood as propensity and/or unhealthy character proof,” and famous Hymer had dominated three earlier occasions that solely prior felonies might be introduced up.
After he received his attraction, Corridor returned to Alameda County jail and plea deal negotiations started. Underneath the deal, he receives credit score for 10 years he spent behind bars since his arrest in 2012.
Bradley was a UC Berkeley alumnus and a photographer, painter, sculpture, and poet. He received KQED’s Artist Award in 1974 and Buy Prize on the San Francisco Artwork Competition, amongst different honors.
Shortly earlier than his dying, Bradley moved from Berkeley to Oakland, and Corridor was his former subsequent door neighbor who grew to become homeless. Bradley periodically employed Corridor for odd jobs, like landscaping, and the 2 grew to become pals. The motive for the killing was unclear, however police stated on the time Corridor was commonly consuming and utilizing methamphetamine.
In response to police, Corridor strangled Bradley with an extension chord and stabbed him quite a few occasions in June 2012. Bradley’s badly decomposed physique was discovered at his West Oakland residence days later. Corridor denied involvement within the killing, and stated he did not report it out of concern the true killers would come after him.
Police linked him to the crime by means of DNA discovered on bloody clothes within the space.