Gin & Justice

On this weeks episode Justine and Amanda speak with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis, a community-based sociologist and criminologist, educator, and researcher. She is also the founder of 365 Diversity.
365 Diversity does results-based trainings, workshops, evaluations, and assessments of every part of schools, businesses, and organizations.
We discuss the need to look inside ourselves and find our contributions and be open to change.


 To learn more about Dr. Dennis and 365 Diversity:  https://365diversity.com/

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     On this weeks episode Justine and Amanda talk with Todd Boczkowski.
 Todd shares his unique perspective on the criminal justice system as not only a murder victims family member, but also as the son of the man convicted in the murders of his mother and step mother.  He speaks openly about the trauma  associated with navigating that at a young age.
He also tells us about the book he wrote about his experience called "My Two Angels" which will be available March of this year.
You can get on the waiting list here: https://www.toddboz.com/launch46844766

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Happy New Year everyone! On this weeks Legal Brief, Justine teaches us about hearsay and some of the exceptions to the rule.

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On this weeks episode, Justine and Amanda chat with Kate Judson, the Executive Director of the Center For Integrity In Forensic Sciences.  CIFS is an organization created by renowned attorneys, Keith Findley, Dean Strang, and Jerome Buting to raise awareness and create standards for forensic sciences in the courtroom, because currently there are NONE! Faulty forensics contribute to so many wrongful convictions...need we say... Dr. Michael West and the infamous bitemark evidence.  Kate tells us about the different trends in forensic sciences, and the direction that CIFS is trying to take us to hopefully prevent wrongful convictions based on faulty forensics.  This is a wonderful organization that is bringing reform to the courtrooms.

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It's the last Legal brief of the month,  so you know what that means, Justine and Amanda tell listeners all about the people who were added to The National Registry of Exonerations list.

As always we want to thank the hard working folks at https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx for all the hard work they do compiling all of this  information. We highly suggest you check them out.

Even more so, thank you to  Maurice Possley and Ken Otterbourg for putting these stories out there for us to all learn about.

You can read the whole stories about the exonerees mentioned here:

Kimberly Long https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5962
Jason Serranohttps://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6067
Willie Robinson https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6062
Maurice Harris https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6061
George Almondhttps://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6064
Darnell Howard https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6060
Darnell Harris https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6063
Anthony Broadwater https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6082
Robert Williams https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6048
Adam Braseel https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6084
Kevin Strickland https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6081
Khalil Islam https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6073
Muhammad Aziz https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6072

Here is a link to see the emotional moments of Anthony Broadwater's exoneration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuPix9gDTqI

and don't forget to watch the Netflix docuseries "Who Killed Malcolm X

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On this weeks episode Justine and Amanda sit down with Chelsea Halstead,  the Associate Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, where she oversees the center’s strategy, advocacy, and fundraising efforts.

We discuss how women are treated when it comes to the death penalty, some stories of women from death row, some projects Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide is working on, and more.

To learn more about Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide:https://deathpenaltyworldwide.org/

To learn more about The Alice Project:
https://deathpenaltyworldwide.org/project/the-alice-project/

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On this weeks Legal Brief Justine tells Amanda about some criminal justice reform news and Florida's unfortunate response to the 100,000 + people that have died from overdoses this year.

 Source material for this episode :
https://www.wsmv.com/news/gov-lee-grants-clemency-for-17-people/article_78f7984c-539b-11ec-81d0-db47c6becbf5.html

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/476984-house-subcommittee-oks-bill-bolstering-drug-dealer-charges/

https://www.vox.com/22763939/supreme-court-death-penalty-religious-liberty-ramirez-collier-execution-pastor

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1052957246/why-philadelphia-has-banned-low-level-traffic-stops

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/01/health/fentanyl-test-strip/index.html

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  On this weeks episode Justine and Amanda chat with Juanita Belton, Santia Nance, & Paulettra James, The founders of SIP.

   These three women have a vision to change the perception of those sentenced to prison beyond 10 years and have been forgotten by lawmakers and society. Currently focused in Virginia, they started their efforts with the goal achieving the release of their loved ones, Quadaire Patterson, Jerry James, and Sincere Allah.

To learn more about the work they are doing:
https://sistasinprisonreform.com/about/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/13/virginias-extreme-sentences-dont-make-us-safer-they-hurt-communities/

Twitter: @theSIP2021

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  It's the last Legal Brief of the month, so you know what that means! That's right, Justine and Amanda are telling the stories of the people who were added to the National Registry of Exonerations.

 " The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence. The Registry also maintains a more limited database of known exonerations prior to 1989."

We can not thank them enough for all their hard work compiling all the stories of the almost 3,000 exonerees. 

To Learn more: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx

Phillip Barnett: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6044
Nathaniel Barnett:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6045
Justin Black:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6046
Chad Breland:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6049
Zachary Vanderhorst:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6056
Patrick O'Hearn:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6052
Dustin Duty:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6055
Troy Rhodes:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6070
Stefon Morant:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6065
Isiah Andrews:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6053
David Morris:https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6066

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This weeks episode, Justine and Amanda had he pleasure of chatting with Jia Wertz. Jia  is an independent documentary filmmaker pursuing stories that explore wrongful convictions in the name of protecting the social order.  She is currently investigating the inconsistencies of the American Criminal Justice system through the story of Jeffrey Deskovic (who you may remember from his interview with G&J) and other exonerees to have their freedom restored at the cost of irreparable damage to their minds, relationships and families.

Not only that, Jia is a featured writer for Forbes, Co-host of the Speaking of Crime podcast, the Founder and fashion designer of Studio 15, and the recipient of MANY MANY awards. She is incredible, and really just does it all. We are so grateful to have met and talked about how wrongful conviction changed the direction of her life.
You can learn more about Jia here:https://www.jiawertz.com/

Speaking of Crime:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speaking-of-crime/id1527802216

You can also watch Conviction:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F9XPHB4

To learn more about Jefferey: https://www.deskovicfoundation.org/

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