He also mentored youth and worked on the San Quentin video program, First Watch, which seeks to humanize incarceration by telling the stories of inmates. He plans to continue this work. He co-founded Re:store Justice, which helped sponsor SB 1437. While he was in prison, Khan got involved in criminal justice reform work. “Although the law has changed, I still do take responsibility for it, and I have since day one.” “With this new legislation change, the law says that I'm not responsible for the murder,” said Khan. Khan is the first person to be released from prison under SB 1437. Prior to the bipartisan bill, state law allowed people who participated in crimes that led to a death - even if they did not assist in the killing - to be convicted of felony murder. He will no longer have a murder charge on his record. He has already served five times that amount, and was released.
18, Khan went to court and was resentenced to three years for the Antioch robbery. 'I think that we barely touch the surface on incarcerated people telling their own stories.' Adnan Khan “Under the felony murder rule, all accomplices to certain felonies including, most commonly, robbery and burglary, can be charged and convicted of a first-degree murder when an accomplice kills another person, or when a death occurs," she said. "This law changes a centuries-old law in California known as the felony murder rule,” said Kate Chatfield, policy director at Re:store Justice, a criminal justice reform organization Khan co-founded while in prison. Adnan Khan sits in the Re:store Justice transitional home in Oakland where he is now living. Khan's murder conviction was overturned last week. The bill changed the law that allowed prosecutors to lock up Khan for a murder he didn't actually commit. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat, and Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican, took effect. That's when Senate Bill 1437, co-authored by state Sen. And my intentions were not to kill anyone." "Unfortunately, the man that I was with stabbed and killed the young man. And I was absolutely wrong for that," Khan said. “Sixteen years ago, I participated in and committed a robbery. Khan spent nearly half of his life behind bars, the last four years in San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.
I still take responsibility for it, and I have since day one.' Adnan Khan 'With this new legislation change, the law says that I'm not responsible for the murder. He was convicted of felony murder, and got a sentence of 25 years to life. Under California's felony murder rule, Khan was held equally responsible for the killing. His accomplice stabbed and killed the man in the process. In 2003, at age 18, Adnan Khan was involved in the robbery of a marijuana dealer.
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