Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang
In the largest federal death penalty case in U.S. History originating from the federal government’s 2002 indictment of the Aryan Brotherhood—a prison gang formed in 1964 by white inmates of California’s San Quentin State Prison to allegedly protect themselves from other gangs within the prison, Mr. Kaloyanides represented an Aryan Brotherhood member serving 25 years to life under California’s “Three Strikes” law. The government sought the death penalty against the client for the alleged 1997 murder by strangulation of another alleged Aryan Brotherhood gang member
Mr. Kaloyanides successfully argued that the government’s pursuit of the death penalty against his client was a violation of the 8th Amendment and the 5th Amendment due process clause. The Court struck the death penalty from the case. The government then dismissed the indictment against the client.
