Jerry Rosenberg, a convicted killer of two police officers and a noted jailhouse lawyer died on June 1, 2009 at the age of 72. He was serving a life sentence for the 1962 killing of two police detectives during a botched robbery in Brooklyn, NY.
He was originally sentenced to death and was hours away from execution in 1964 when his sentence was changed to life in prison. He subsequently earned a law degree in 1967, becoming the first inmate in New York to do so.
In 1971 he was shot and beaten during the takeover of Attica State Prison. He served as an inmate negotiator during the ordeal which lead to the death of 11 prison employees and 32 convicts.
By his own count, he filed over 200 lawsuits on behalf of fellow inmates. Tony Danza played him in the television movie "Doing Life".
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