Special Note: The day after this broadcast our Dear Gerard passed away...... We Love Him and forever blessed for this journey with Him..
There are many reasons for this, many of which are rooted in the special developmental vulnerabilities of children. Children and teenagers are categorically more suggestible, compliant, and vulnerable to outside pressures than adults. They are less able to weigh risks and consequences; less likely to understand their legal rights; and less likely to understand what attorneys do or how attorneys can help them.
Black youth are more than four times as likely to be detained or committed in juvenile facilities as their white peers. Forty-one percent of youths in placement are Black, even though Black Americans comprise only 15% of all youth across the United States. Meanwhile in Michigan, Black youth are arrested at over twice the rate of White youth. Black youth accounted for 16 percent of the general population and 35.3 percent of the population with delinquency petitions.
A study of 125 proven false confession cases found that 63% of false confessors were under the age of twenty-five and 32% were under eighteen. Another respected study of 340 exonerations found that juveniles under the age of eighteen were three times as likely to falsely confess as adults.
There are many reasons for this, many of which are rooted in the special developmental vulnerabilities of children. Children and teenagers are categorically more suggestible, compliant, and vulnerable to outside pressures than adults. They are less able to weigh risks and consequences; less likely to understand their legal rights; and less likely to understand what attorneys do or how attorneys can help them.
This week on Turning A Moment Into A Movement we will explore the topic:
The Juvenile Criminal System....the pathway to Wrongful Convictions
w/ Attorney Dorphine Payne
Attorney Dorphine Payne is a Notre Dame Law School graduate; worked in the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's office early in her career. She also has experience working at IBM and as an administrator at 3 different universities. In 2016, she was the first female & minority to run for prosecuting attorney for Kalamazoo Michigan.
So join Jay Love Host, representing the Justice for Gerard Movement
-Attorney Hugo Mack
-Rev Tia Littlejohn
-Edward Sanders
…..for this very much needed conversation.
To learn more about The Justice for Gerard Movement go to: www.change.org/Justice4GERARD
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