National Civil Rights Museum and FAMM Host Journey to Justice Virtual Screening and Panel on Trial Penalty
Panelists include attorney, judge and returning citizen who advocate for sentencing reform
Memphis, TN, March 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The National Civil Rights Museum and FAMM are hosting a virtual film screening and panel discussion of
“The Vanishing Trial,” to highlight wrongful conviction and sentencing around the “trial penalty.” The 90-minute event on March 16 highlights a documentary of four cases involving excessive penalities followed by a panel with FAMM president, a Virginia prosecutor, a Tennessee judge and a returning citizen who recently won clemency.
“The Vanishing Trial” focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that choice between pleading guilty or going to trial. Each was threatened with a “trial penalty,” the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead of