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Sentenced to Life for an Accident Miles Away
Thursday, March 7, 2024 @ 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
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Room 132, Law Building
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Lunch will be provided at 12:45 PM
A Draconian Legal Doctrine called Felony Murder has put thousands of Americans – Disproportionately Young and Black – In Prison.
Join us to hear more about the modern felony-murder doctrine, “a distinctly American innovation.”
Sarah Stillman
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She teaches journalism at Yale and runs the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, a non-profit newsroom creating new models for public-interest coverage of climate change, criminal law, migration, and more.
Sponsored by:
Criminal Law & Justice Center
Investigative Reporting Program, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Mass Media at Berkeley Law
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