Due Process on 13 - The Great Migration

"The Great Migration"

airs: Saturday July 20 at 9:30 am

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On week five of our summer run on Thirteen - It's one of this country's most important stories, yet it's not taught in our schools ... and it's rarely been told.

It's the story of a vast migration of 6 million African-Americans - former slaves, their children and their grandchildren - escaping the terror and humiliation of the South, hoping to finally find freedom in the North.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson - our only guest on this edition of Due Process - says her monumental book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," was her attempt to honor more than a half-century of the difficult flight to freedom.

It's a Due Process you won't want to miss! 

Sandy and Raymond.

 

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30. 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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New on NJTV - "BAIL: $$=FREEDOM​"

"BAIL: $$=FREEDOM"

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airs: Sunday July 21 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday July 23 at 11:30 pm  

    

This Week on Due Process 

On any given day, there are 15,000 people in New Jersey's county jails - and a shocking 75% of them have not been convicted of anything. In fact, most of those unsentenced inmates - 4 out of 10 - are locked up only because they can't make bail ... sometimes as little as a few hundred dollars!

On this edition of Due Process, an in-depth look at the pivotal role of money in the pretrial system of justice. If you've got it, you can almost invariably await your day in court in the comfort of your community. If not, chances are you'll wait in county lock-ups - for months or even years.

An eye-opening mini-doc features the first-hand stories of two indigent defendants jailed for long pretrial stretches and only freed - for time served - after agreeing to plead guilty. In the studio, NJ Public Defender Joseph Krakora and Bergen Prosecutor John Molinelli debate the possibility of bail reform. 

We hope you'll join us.

Sandy and Raymond

 

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30. 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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New on NJTV - "Pot in Black & White"

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airs: Sunday July 14 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday July 16 at 11:30 pm  

    

This Week on Due Process 

Marijuana.  Blacks and whites smoke it, studies show, in roughly equal numbers.  Then why are African Americans nearly four times more likely to be busted?

 Is it racism? Police targeting? Conspiracy? And does the answer to such glaring discrepancy lie not in raising the number of white arrests, but in legalizing pot for everyone?  It's already been done in Colorado and Washington State.

 A new ACLU national study raises disturbing questions about race, marijuana - and justice.  And it's the impetus for this edition of Due Process.  Our studio guests are ACLU-NJ Executive Director Udi Ofer, former Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi and Criminal Defense Attorney Alan Bowman.

We hope you'll watch this most provocative discussion this Sunday on NJTV - and that you'll visit our website or our Facebook page to tell us what you think.

Sandy and Raymond.

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30. 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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Due Process on 13 - DREAM Act: One Step Closer

"DREAM Act: One Step Closer"

airs: Saturday July 13 at 9:30 am

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On week four of our summer run on Thirteen - a presidential initiative is bringing new hope to hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people - brought to this country as children, raised as Americans, but barred, until now, from legal status.

On this edition of Due Process, the process, the pitfalls and the politics of the Obama order, and how it falls far short of the hard-fought, but defeated, "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act."

The DREAM Act would have transformed their lives, started them on a path to citizenship, but it went down to defeat in Congress in December of 2010. Now, more comprehensive immigration reform is pending - but there is resistance, and no guarantee.

The Obama move for kids raised in this country has no provision for permanence, and could disappear with the next president, but it's still brought cheers from the left and condemnation from the right.

Undocumented youth who qualify could come out of the shadows, with the right to legally work, free of the threat of arrest and deportation - for now.

It's an immigration initiative that's worth a closer look, as the larger fight rages in Washington.

Sandy and Raymond.

  

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30. 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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"Barry Scheck: Fighting for Innocence"

airs: Saturday June 29 at 9:30 am 

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On week two of our summer run on Thirteen - and Part II of our award-winning exoneration series - Barry Scheck's 20 years of DNA innocence work is the focus, with Scheck as the only guest for an in-depth, candid interview with Hosts Raymond Brown and Sandra King.

  

Scheck's New York-based Innocence Project has worked to free hundreds of wrongly imprisoned inmates, eclipsing his more controversial image as the DNA expert on the OJ Simpson "dream team."

One of the nation's most famous legal figures, Scheck shares the elation of winning an innocent person's freedom, as well as the emotional toll of the years spent working on each case.

**Next Saturday, on Part III: Exoneration - The Quincy Spruell Struggle**

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30. 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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"We're on Thirteen!" (Spread the Word)

Saturdays 9:30 AM 

Sandy and Raymond on set with Barry Scheck

  

We are delighted to report that beginning this weekend - at 9:30 on Saturday mornings - we will have a summer run on WNET/Thirteen - in addition to our regular airings on NJTV. 

These will be encore presentations of some of the best of "Due Process," beginning with our three-part series on exonerating the falsely imprisoned, featuring Innocence Project Founder Barry Scheck. 

If you are a fan of "Due Process," we hope you'll catch us on Thirteen, the most watched public television channel in the nation.

And if you value our unique programming in the public interest - focused exclusively on critical issues of law and justice - and would like to see it reach a far larger audience, we hope you'll go one step further and let Thirteen know that you appreciate seeing us on their air, and that you hope we will remain there! 

You can leave a comment on the Thirteen website - http://www.thirteen.org/about/contact/ - or drop an email to programming@thirteen.org 

We sincerely thank you and appreciate your support! 

Sandy and Raymond

  

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN. And beginning June 22, find us on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30. 

  

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies.

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.        

   

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This Week on Due Process - Good Samaritan

"Good Samaritan"  

airs: Sunday April 21 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday April 23 at 11:30 pm 

Does a drug overdose have to mean death? Bill proponents say no.

  

  

 

  

 

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The argument is that in an overdose crisis, fear of police and prosecution often keeps even good friends from getting help.

So the drug deaths continue to add up.  More than 700 each year in New Jersey alone. Some practitioners, even legislators from both sides of the aisle, say there's one simple way to get help when it's needed. Remove the fear of arrest!

On this edition of Due Process: the "Good Samaritan" bill: a way of encouraging friends, fellow users, even dealers, to call for life-saving help by shielding them from prosecution. A small price to pay, say supporters.  But the bill's been put in legislative limbo by conditional veto of the Governor.

From an opening mini doc, featuring a Middlesex County mother, whose son died from an overdose in a Rutgers dorm when his friends failed to immediately call for help, to a contentious debate in-studio, we explore both sides of a sensitive subject.

Studio guests: Bill Sponsor Sen. Joseph Vitale, Bill Opponent Assemblyman  Erik Peterson and, from the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Kevin Meara.

It's a Due Process program you won't want to miss!

Sandy and Ray

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN.

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.       

 Watch our programs on-line on our YouTube Channel:  

   

 
We'd be grateful if you'd become a "fan" of Due Process 

  

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