Turning A Moment Into A Movement ........
Friday October 20, 2023 @ 8:30pm
TOPIC: “Restoring Jury Duty to Michigan’s Formerly Incarcerated”
This week guest: Michigan State Rep Jimmie Wilson Jr.
State House District 32,
Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township
Ypsilanti Township trustee, UAW member
According to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, a person convicted of a felony offense is barred from serving on a jury during the term of his/her sentence. However, there is debate as to whether this right is automatically restored upon release from sentence. M.C.L.A. § 600.1307a (1) (e)
Laws excluding those with convictions from serving on a jury reduce the chances that a criminal defendant will have a “jury of his peers” and will more likely have a jury of people who are starkly different from him or her.
The status of a person’s current criminal charges and or criminal history does not and should not determine their ability to serve on a jury for the rest of their life.
Join, Jay Love from The Justice for Gerard Movement, along with our great panelist.
-Attorney Hugo Mack: of H Mack Law, www.hmacklaw.com
-Trischè Duckworth: Founder & Executive Director of Survivors Speak, Founder & Executive Director of Value Black Lives LLC, Social Worker, Justice Advocate
-Rev Tia Littlejohn: Founder of the Choice Zone, Doctoral Student, Minister at Transforming Love Community, Life & Nutrition Coach, Behavior Interventionist, Michigan Racial Equity Task Force member
-Dwayne Brooks: Newly Exonerated after being Wrongly convicted for 35 years....
To learn more about The Justice for Gerard Movement go to: www.change.org/Justice4Gerard
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