Right to your left here and introduce karen hooper, the author of chasing gideon and i just want to announce that she will be holding a book signing. The book came out yesterday. She will have a book signing during lunch. Next is don porter, the producer of gideons army. The clip we just saw. Don is a founder of Trilogy Films and director of gideons army. It premiered in the 2010 sundance festival. Shes an a shes on the 2012 hot shot directors emerging to watch, shes also graduated from Georgetown University law center and practicing attorney and Abc Television networks before starting her Television Career and next is john. I met john about 10 years ago when he was starting off and had this crazy idea of operating a Training Center for public defenders and he did. Hes no now the president and founder and one of the contributors to gideons army, hes from John Marshall law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. He was in the post katrina and new orleans center. He trained p
My goal is to fill this wall up and once i fill this wall up, i wont know what else to do. I decided the wall i dont have any tattoos. Im going to get the last name of every case i lost. Hopefully i wont fill my back up. Since this is going on the wall, i feel it has to go on my back. When you work as a public defender, you saved somebody and they are like what does that mean . I defend people who are charged with people committing crime. They say how can you defend people . I say its about the sanctity of human liberty and the cost if you want to take it. Most important is trying to keep their moral up and try to keep their best interest at heart. I know for me when i relate to my clients i see them as cousins or brothers or uncles just because its the face of the black community. So many of them are locked up and of course im having to work against their initial impression of public defender because their public defender somehow screwed them. How are you . Good. Sit over here. How ar
I have been advised the superior court, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. This 2nd day of november 2011. Count 1. My goal is to fill this wall up and once i fill this wall up, i wont know what else to do. I decided the wall i dont have any tattoos. Im going to get the last name of every case i lost. Hopefully i wont fill my back up. Since this is going on the wall, i feel it has to go on my back. When you work as a public defender, you saved somebody and they are like what does that mean . I defend people who are charged with people committing crime. They say how can you defend people . I say its about the sanctity of human liberty and the cost if you want to take it. Most important is trying to keep their moral up and try to keep their best interest at heart. I know for me when i relate to my clients i see them as cousins or brothers or uncles just because its the face of the black community. So many of them are locked up and of course im having to work against their initial
My mom said she went to get it the other day but the door was locked. I had court and i told 3 guards here that i had to go to court. Nobody took me to court. That caused me to be evicted from my house. She called the court to let them know i was incarcerated. Hes holding my stuff. Thank you for letting me know that. You were convicted of cocaine possession . Yes i did. I really planned to get out of jail. I have never been in jail before. It was my public defender. She told me i would not be convicted. They told me i had another one and i thought my life was completely over. Your sentence was two years suspended. You should have been eligible for readjudication. Its not the end of the world. It is the end of my world because i missed a lot. Im going to ask about the eyewitnesses and where were they standing. Could they have been under the influence because it could have been something that clouded their vision of what took place. All right . I will see you on monday. Thank you so much
Uncles just because its the face of the black community. So many of them are locked up and of course im having to work against their initial impression of public defender because their public defender somehow screwed them. How are you . Good. Sit over here. How are you . Good. Its freezing outside. You know why im here. Im trying to get a better understanding of the place where you were arrested. Lets kind of go through your information. What do you do . Im certified mechanic. How long have you been a mechanic . About 15 years. Okay. So once you are released and you go back, you will go back to working on cars . I will try. Since i have been here, i have lost my house and they have broken in and stolen all of my tools. I have to start from scratch. My landlord found out. I have a conviction notice. Where is all your stuff . My mom said she went to get it the other day but the door was locked. I had court and i told 3 guards here that i had to go to court. Nobody took me to court. That