Young men were imprisoned and later exxon rated them. What do you think has to change in terms of the actuality cult you are culture of the criminal Justice System that will prevent this in the future . The win it all mentality has to go. I think there is this tunnel vision and that is colloquial that is for a human being to not come up with a conclusion first and look at the facts that go to support and look at that conclusion and we all suffer from it one way or another. Prosecutors suffer greatly. They commit a lot of resources to that prosecution. Im not talking about the evil plays who dont care whether somebody is innocent or guilty. I think most of them think they are going after the correct person and they think thats what they have done and its difficult for them to back out of that to take a hard look and step back and take a hard look at it. You are right, its been really difficult for us to get any tracks to do that and let the judge decide. But to step up and say im not go
Inadequate but he wouldnt have been in the position if everyone else had done their job in the first place. That is pervasive in our system and people working in the trenches is hard to overcome that complacency and their client issen entitled to that. That doesnt provide the information that they need to challenge the prosecution. Where we know many of our experts on arson and the fire wasnt arson. When you have evidence that isnt disclosed you have experts that are challenged because there are no resources and you have a system that has burden the public with too many cases and its impossible for them not to be complacent. We have to remember to be vigilant and challenge a system that doesnt give a person representation are entitled to. I wanted to ask you what is it about the culture of prosecution or prosecutors that allows wrongful convictions. I know there have been stories of prosecutors who have been responsible for exonerating individuals who they believe are wrongfully convic
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 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
Against him, nothing to point to the fact that this man was in anyway involved in trafficking, of course crystal meth, he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. So when they said guilty i had never seen a persons face like that. He did understand that word and he was taken in handcuffs and incredulous that this could have happened to him. What happened is he goes to prison and now deportation 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 familie
The beginning. Even my 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