Bruce Lisker, an American male, at age 17 was wrongly arrested, tried, and convicted for the March 10, 1983 murder of his mother, Dorka, 66, in the family's Sherman Oaks residence. Lisker served more than 26 years of a 16-years-to-life sentence in California prisons, including the California Youth Authority (now California Division of Juvenile Justice; 1986-7), San Quentin State Prison (1987-9), and Mule Creek State Prison (1989-2009). His conviction was overturned in a 2009 ruling by United States district court judge Virginia A. Phillips, in which she found that his 1985 conviction was obtained through use of false evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel.