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
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SPIRITUAL AUDACITY
: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story, takes a closer look at Heschel’s life and achievements.
And it is quite a story. Heschel was born in 1907 in what is today modern Poland. Descended from a line of Hasidic rabbis, Heschel had a traditional observant upbringing. Following yeshiva studies, Heschel was ordained a rabbi. Afterward, he went on to study for a doctorate at the University of Berlin. With the rise of Nazism, Heschel was able to get out of mainland Europe, first to Britain and then America. However, he lost his mother and sisters in the Holocaust.
It’s difficult to peg Rabbi Heschel religiously. He grew up in a scholarly Orthodox world and was ordained a rabbi there. However, his more secular university studies appeared to widen his philosophical and religious horizons.