Release decision delayed for 49ers star Dana Stubblefield after rape conviction reversal

SAN JOSE — Former San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield will spend the next two weeks in a Santa Clara County jail while his attorneys push for his release following an appellate court’s decision last week to to reverse his 2020 rape conviction.

Stubblefield is being held in local custody after being transferred from Corcoran State Prison, where he was three years into a 15-years-to-life term when the Sixth District Court of Appeal on Dec. 26 vacated a jury’s verdict and the subsequent sentence.