Ronald Sullivan: How I help free innocent people from prison
Ronald Sullivan: Masum insanları hapishaneden kurtulmasına nasıl yardım ederim
Ronald Sullivan is a leading theorist in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, trial practice and techniques, legal ethics and race theory. Full bio
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Disney World'e gitmek için
a 19-hour, very long drive
a hundred more times, easily,
wonderful, wonderful trip.
were away in Florida.
who will listen,
ve Minnie ile takılıyordum!"
and Minnie and my kids!"
I have worked on
in Brooklyn, New York,
in the prosecutor's file,
to his public defender.
avukatına hiç vermediler.
orada olduğunu bilmiyordu.
and we found it,
committed the crime.
ortaya çıkardılar.
from the Brooklyn District Attorney.
Savcısından bir telefon aldım.
in designing a program
bir programın tasarlanması ile
a unit in a prosecutor's office
geçmiş davalarda hata yapılıp
belirlendiği
they made mistakes.
tutuluyorladı
significant time behind bars.
21 kişi serbest kaldı.
of the men and women
kapsamında iletişime geçtiğim
in the course of this program.
Bana komplo kuruldu.
I've been framed.
like it was open and shut,
incelemeye bile gerek yoktu
a little bit closer at those cases.
incelememiz gerektiğini gösterir.
duyduğunu söylemiş
and turned around and looked,
arkasını dönüp bakmış
and in jail for 17-some-odd years.
17 yıl boyunca hapishanedeydi.
so we took a look at it.
onu tekrar ele aldık.
ve bir tutarsızlık tespit ettiler.
and there was an inconsistency.
from where she said she was
Doğru olmadığını biliyorduk.
that he didn't do it,
göstermiyordu
about this witness.
olabileceğini biliyorduk.
had a number on it.
bir numara vardı.
that this witness had a record.
olduğunu belirtiyordu.
of non-digitized papers
kağıtlarına
çözmek için döndük
arkasında geçirdi.
2 çocuk hakkında bir dosya,
29 years later.
it looked open and shut.
gerek yok gibi görünüyordu.
that juvenile confessions
were police and prosecutors.
ve savcılar bilebilirdi.
zorla alındığını
çok kapsamlı adli
different hairstyle,
farklı saç tiplerinde
that judges say all the time,
söylediği şeyleri söyledi
his codefendant, Mr. Stuckey,
at counsel table in his place.
savunma masasına oturmuştu.
bunu asla unutmayacağım.
the rest of my life.
biliyordum." dedi.
anything that I've learned,
çalışmalarının bütününden
that just descends from above
wouldn't have died in prison.
hapiste ölmeyecekti.
just an extra minute --
bu fişi bulması
find the receipt,
fişi bulacak
"O olamaz." demesi
and say, "That cannot be."
would be alive today.
yaşıyor olacaktı.
"Tanrı'nın dakikaları"
would always recite,
give account if I abuse it.
kötüye kullanırsam hesap vermem gerekir.
their careers and their lives,
kariyerlerini ve hayatlarını
ne yaparsanız yapın
whatever you do,
yüksek sesle söyleyin.
her gün fazladan bir dakika ile
he was released from prison.
günden bir resim.
yeğenini kucakladı.
you want to do?"
to walk on the sidewalk
about two weeks ago.
2 hafta önce konuştum.
when we met with him
sağlamaya adadığını belirtti.
is locked up unjustly.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. - Clinical professor of lawRonald Sullivan is a leading theorist in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, trial practice and techniques, legal ethics and race theory.
Why you should listen
Professor Ronald Sullivan is the faculty director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and the Harvard Trial Advocacy Workshop. Sullivan also serves as Faculty Dean of Winthrop House at Harvard College. He is the first African American ever appointed Faculty Dean in Harvard's history. He is a founding member and Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project.
Sullivan has merged legal theory and practice over the course of his career in unique and cutting-edge ways. In 2014, he was tasked to design and implement a Conviction Review Unit (CRU) for the newly elected Brooklyn District Attorney. The CRU, designed to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted persons, quickly became regarded as the model conviction integrity program in the nation. In its first year of operation alone, Sullivan discovered over 10 wrongful convictions, which the DA ultimately vacated. Some of the exonerated citizens had served more than 30 years in prison before they were released.
In 2008, Sullivan served as Chair, Criminal Justice Advisory Committee for then-Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In this capacity, his committee made policy recommendations on a range of issues in an effort to put into practice some of the best research in the field. He also served as a member of the National Legal Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. Finally, Sullivan was appointed Advisor to the Department of Justice Presidential Transition Team.
In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Sullivan was asked to create a system to solve a criminal justice crisis. More than 6,000 citizens were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system that resulted in the release of nearly all the 6000 inmates.
Sullivan still maintains an appellate and trial practice. He has represented persons ranging from politicians to professional athletes to recording artists to pro bono clients in criminal jeopardy. Representative clients include: The family of Michael Brown, former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez and the family of Usaamah Rahim.
Sullivan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College and the Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and as General Editor of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal.
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