Wednesday, July 29, 2015

New on Thirteen and NJTV: Falsely Imprisoned: The McCallum Case

"Falsely Imprisoned: The McCallum Case"



airs: Saturday August 1 at 7am on
  AND
  
Sunday August 2 at 9:30am and 7pm 
and Tuesday August 4 at 11:30pm  
David McCallum, exonerated and released, after 29 years
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This Week on Due Process  


Innocent men and women convicted and imprisoned.  The estimates range from 2 to 10 per cent of everyone locked up.  In a country that puts millions behind bars, that's tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, falsely imprisoned.

That stat is shocking, but the horror really sets in when you come face to face with the innocent people behind those numbers, and none more than David McCallum, who lost nearly two-thirds of his life to a crime he did not commit.

On this edition of Due Process, David's tragic story and its happy ending - long overdue.  It took a virtual village of lawyers and supporters, including Rutgers Law Prof. Laura Cohen and the students in her Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic, to finally win his freedom.

In the studio: Cohen joins Ryan Haygood, President of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, in discussing the many troubling issues raised by David's case: issues of juvenile justice, coerced confessions, false imprisonment, inadequate legal counsel, exoneration and re-entry.

We hope you'll join us for this important episode of Due Process.

Sandy and Raymond
 

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Friday, July 24, 2015

New on Thirteen and NJTV: Guantanamo Diary

"Guantanamo Diary"



airs: Saturday July 25 at 7am on
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Sunday July 26 at 9:30am and 7pm 
and Tuesday July 28 at 11:30pm  
Mohamedou Slahi, imprisoned at Guantanamo for 13 years - without charges

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The NY Times has called him "collateral damage in the war on terror."   Taken from his home in Mauritania after 9/11, Mohamedou Slahi has been held in the island prison camp for 13 years - tortured and never charged.

His lawyers say there was never evidence connecting him to terrorism; five years ago a federal judge agreed and cleared him for release. Nonetheless, he remains isolated and imprisoned along with 115 other detainees, nearly half of whom have also been cleared.

On this edition of Due Process: Guantanamo, torture, Mohamedou Slahi - who has somehow managed to write and publish a book from inside - and the international literary and arts community which has rallied around him.

In the studio: Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project and a member of Slahi's legal team, and Seton Hall Law Prof. Mark Denbeaux, who has been to Guantanamo 75 times, representing other inmates whom he says should also be freed.

It's a don't miss edition of Due Process.  We hope you'll join us!

Sandy and Raymond 
 

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