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Jun 22, 2012 · Some still feel there was no justice even after the long legal ordeal that included: 1) the state murder prosecution, where Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, were allowed to plea bargain to second degree murder, given 3 years’ probation and fined $3,720; 2) the first federal prosecution on civil rights charges that ended in a 25-year ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1983 for the beating death of 27-year-old Chin in Detroit. Accounts have suggested that Ebens and Nitz targeted Chin, who...
Jun 23, 2022 · Nitz was found not guilty on both charges. Ebens was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but his lawyers appealed his conviction and he was released on bond.
Jun 19, 2022 · What happened to Vincent Chin. In 1982, Chin, then 27 and a draftsman, was beaten to death by Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, two white autoworkers. That June, Chin was celebrating his bachelor...
Jun 16, 2022 · But the two white men, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, tracked Mr. Chin to a McDonald’s a few blocks down Woodward Avenue. There, in front of a crowd that included off-duty police officers, Mr....
Jun 17, 2022 · Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, were sentenced to three years' probation and fined $3,000. These events galvanized a generation of Asian American activists to fight for civil rights...
Apr 16, 2021 · Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were initially charged with second-degree murder but eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Jun 16, 2022 · Ronald Ebens pleaded guilty to manslaughter, while his stepson, Michael Nitz, pleaded no contest. Each was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $3,780.
Jun 20, 2022 · Later that night, two white men, Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz, attacked Chin and beat him to death. A 1998 documentary, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"
Jun 17, 2022 · Chin, 27, was celebrating his bachelor party with friends on June 19, 1982, when he was beaten to death by Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz. They wrongly accused Chin of being Japanese and of...
