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The vanishing trial : the choice has nothing to do with justice / produced by FAMM ; directed by Wynette Yao.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plea bargaining--United States.
- Plea bargaining.
- United States.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Films for the hearing impaired.
- Legal films.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- color
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Oregon : Collective Eye Films, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Imagine you're charged with a crime. Now you must choose between pleading guilty and receiving a shorter sentence-or going to trial and risking decades behind bars. The Vanishing Trial" focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a "trial penalty," the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead of pleading guilty. We see how the trial penalty has led to the shocking disappearance of one of the most fundamental individual rights and the explosion in America's prison population. Throughout the film, we hear the perspectives of national experts, including former federal judges and prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, constitutional law experts, and criminal justice reform advocates.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer/editor, Travis Edwards.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio: 16:9.
- "National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; NACLD Foundation for Criminal Justice"--Disc surface.
- Released in 2020.
- OCLC:
- 1197983448
- Publisher Number:
- 729105910013
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