Claim: Sonny Franzese was acquitted of murder, he was convicted in Houston by judge Jacob Mishler who was born in 1911.
Evidence: However, on March 3, 1967, Franzese was convicted in Albany, New York of masterminding a series of four bank robberies across the country in 1965, and was finally sentenced to 50 years in prison at United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, by judge Jacob Mishler in 1970, after several denied appeals.