‘He needs immediate medical attention’: After prosecutors failed to convince jury, Bay Area man gets 9 years for Oakland fatal beating

OAKLAND — An East Palo Alto man has accepted a 9-year prison term and involuntary manslaughter conviction two months after prosecutors failed to convince a jury he was guilty of murder in a 2021 beating death, court records show. Joshua Stroman, 38, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter and assault in the death of 40-year-old Kenyon Graham, and was sentenced to prison in mid-April, court records show. The plea deal came less than a month after Stroman’s murder trial, where jurors acquitted him of first degree murder but failed to...