Susan Jordan, a Ukiah criminal defense attorney nationally known for her advocacy on behalf of women, was killed in a plane crash May 29 at the age of 67. What follows are excerpts from a 1997 Recorder Q&A with Jordan in which she discusses the 1977 Inez Garcia case that made her name.
Inez Garcia was an unlikely cause célèbre. A young, devout Hispanic woman who had married at 14 and could neither read, write nor tell the time, in 1974 she was living in Soledad, to be near her husband, who was incarcerated there.
