Families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for
Proceedings begin. I cant remember your original question. I think that immigration and how we are in criminalizing in an effort to deport people is one of the more disgusting and shocking things i saw repeatedly in the course of filming. I think briefly that those of you in the i immigration area understand what its like. I tried a sanctuary case, i hope there is no other place in america where the authorities create the people that they process the way they do that there may be some jails where they do that. Unless you have seen it, you cannot imagine what goes on and they separate families, they separate families, this is a nation of family values. And so i thought in my youth that someone would come along and reform the immigration status. I may not see it myself the way its going. Just moving to the next question for maurice. Did you feel discouraged in your fight for innocence when you were incarcerated and did you feel like it was you against the system . Yes. I felt that, you k
Illness and arent willing to take their medication, it just does not work. Too many of our mentally ill end up on the streets and in the criminal justice system. These are pictures of my son and another mothers son. We wanted to share with you so you can have an insight to our lives and our sons lives. My son could have never harmed anybody. The other son has lived on the streets for four years now. This mom told me when he was firstborn how beautiful he was. He was a 4. 0 student, he was extremely bright and invited to all the top schools. He now lives in city parks and on the street. Both of our families tried desperately to help our sons to try to prevent this. We could not. Our son first became ill after high school. He was supposed to go to college like many other peoples kids an then he had his first psychotic break. We could not get any help for him. When a person is left to decompensate to the point where they can not eat because they fear their food is poison or when they cant
See it myself the way its going. Just moving to the next question for maurice. Did you feel discouraged in your fight for innocence when you were incarcerated and did you feel like it was you against the system . Yes. I felt that, you know from day one. Because its like, even going through trial, it was like i felt that i had no way, story, even if my story was true, there was no way. My character, from where i was from, it was like, im already guilty. So for intimidation, i didnt feel intimidated. I always like i said, the hope i had from one end, it deteriorated from me even losing faith from the system and the police arresting me. The lawyers were the ones that helped me get out and the same people that i needed to help me get out were the ones that i was like mad at. So mad, my madness made me fight. So i stayed fighting but i never felt like it was going to be over. I got a niece that is 23 years old right now, even in 2011 when my case got over turned and i called her and i said
Issue of public pressure and understanding and really pushing applications legislators, everyone that you have an opportunity to talk to so that they understand whats at stake here because i do think that really, i really believe that americans are interested in fairness. I admit im a Glass Half Full person. I believe in fairness and its so primary of the way we think. You think of little kids arguing. Its one of the first arguments they have. Wait, she got more chocolate milk than me. Thats not fair. There is this primary interest that we believe in fairness. The challenge for us is how do we bring the public inside this world and make them understand that this is not fair and it has to change. Here is our first question from the audience and its a question i will put to the panel and any of you can respond. Its a great question. Is gideons promise does it extend to our nations immigrants when they are told to plead guilty and they are deported . I will start with that because i filme