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>> the department of justice proudly announced the bank agreed to pay total of $1.9 billion, which was a record fine. it amounted to five weeks worth of income for the bank and no criminal charges were announced. a decision attributed to concerns that charges could jeopardize the bank and potentially the entire global financial system. general eric holder, instructing prosecutors to consider the collateral consequences of a corporate criminal conviction in determines whether to charge the corpor...

Have ever been charged. >> people will say about the criminal justice system, theyll be like, well, all these people are guilty. you know, thats -- and you, you know, you find the odd person whos innocent with your innocence project, and you find the dna. >> not just a few. >> but does the system do a good job of essentially exercising any discretion? i mean, is it mindful? is it just in who it prosecutes and who it doesnt? >> well, its become almost mindless because we have such an expansion, j...

Should say the issue is not solely her, but what happens to the next person whos innocent and knows about this case? they take a plea bargain. something they really shouldnt have ever been charged. >> people will say about the criminal justice system, theyll be like, well, all these people are guilty. you know, thats -- and you, you know, you find the odd person whos innocent with your innocence project, and you find the dna. >> not just a few. >> but does the system do a good job of essentially...

Pled no contest to the disorderly conduct charge. however, it appears that her lawyer has since worked out this pretrial diversion, which is not a conviction. no contest is a conviction, and pretrial diversion is not a conviction. the difference between pleading guilty and pleading no contest is that with no contest, youre not admitting you did anything wrong, but it can still be used against you as a conviction, still can have collateral consequences, the truth of the consequences is under atla...

>> i think that felix is portraying a perspective in a world of gloom and doom that wouldnt happen. there is a rational way to say to a bank, such as this, what we do with three fel-- street felo say to them, if we have the third prosecution or guilty plea, well take you and restructure you and sell off the pieces of the bank. were not throwing thousands of people out of work. were taking the pieces of your institutions and giving it to others who will fill the void. the world has not failed to ...

The outrage back in the civil rights movement when we saw people getting hosed down. >> thats the question. >> im glad you brought up the civil rights movement. what you said was important, that we have not been locking people up at this rate forever. we see the end of the civil rights era and the huge spike in incarcerations. but to go a bit further, we are also attaching invisible punishment to those convictions. so we are setting kids up for failure through collateral consequences. if you hav...

Colorlines.com. im so excited to have you here tonight. >> great to be here, thanks. >> you and i had an e-mail communication more than a month ago when you sent out the color lines report about immigration policy and particularly this administrations immigration policy. and then i heard, you know, newt gingrich talking about immigration policy on the gop side last night. im interested. take us from that level of how it hurts the economy. tell me about families. what difference does this make to...

Administrations immigration policy. and then i heard, you know, newt gingrich talking about immigration policy on the gop side last night. im interested. take us from that level of how it hurts the economy. tell me about families. what difference does this make to human beings living on the ground under these policies? >> newt gingrich understands that immigration enforcement has a lot of collateral consequences. one of the worst collateral consequences is that families are split up. we came acr...

Im so excited to have you here tonight. >> great to be here, thanks. >> you and i had an e-mail communication more than a month ago when you sent out the color lines report about immigration policy and particularly this administrations immigration policy. and then i heard, you know, newt gingrich talking about immigration policy on the gop side last night. im interested. take us from that level of how it hurts the economy. tell me about families. what difference does this make to human beings li...