Title: Crime After Crime Director: Yoav Potash Featuring: Deborah Peagler, Nadia Costa, Joshua Safran, others When has justice been served, and a criminal debt paid? When a victim’s family announces its forgiveness, and lobbies for the release of imprisoned? When new evidence casts a pall over a guilty plea? When an inmate is diagnosed with a terminal illness? These and other questions are at the heart of ‘Crime After Crime’, a documentary that spotlights the extraordinarily heartrending case of Deborah Peagler, a woman convicted in 1983, under a variety of extenuating circumstances, in the death of her abusive spouse, who it turns out pimped her out while she was still...
- 6/29/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Lawyers are terrible people, some of the most loathsome, scummy shit-eaters on the planet. Except the good ones. There are those that care, that care enough to devote countless under-appreciated and and sorely under-compensated hours to impoverished clients in need, who care more about justice than a paycheck, who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. I have dinner with one of those lawyers every night, and dinner conversations sometimes go like this, "How was your day, Dustin?" "It was good, I pissed off some people, stirred a hornet's nest on the site, and wrote about 'Cougar Town.' How was your day?" "Oh, fine. I helped get a woman out of a violent situation, I prevented an unemployed man from being evicted and kicked out on the street, and I listened and validated half a dozen men and women who have never had anyone take their problems seriously before.
- 1/28/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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