Bruce Nickerson, gay rights legal champion, dies at 80
qvoicenews.comAttorney Bruce Nickerson sits in the hallway of the Torrance Courthouse and shares good news with his client, Charles Samuel Couch, July 21, 2017.
The judge granted Nickerson’s request for a finding of factual innocence. Photo: Q Voice News photo. Bruce Nickerson, a legal lion who spent decades defending gay men throughout California who had been discriminated against and falsely arrested by law enforcement in gay-sex sting operations, has died.
Nickerson died at a hospital Saturday in Redwood City after a brief illness, said Carlos Scott Lopez, Nickerson’s domestic partner.
Bruce Nickerson was 80. Nickerson previously had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, but it’s unknown if that contributed to his death, said Lopez, who is awaiting cause of death information from the coroner.
