Sarah Stillman

Minnesota, I met some really incredible mothers whose daughters have been incarcerated on these charges for something, a murder that they themselves did not commit, that they had no idea was going to take place. These two moms, Linda and Tony, they knew nothing about the criminal justice system. One of them was working as a real estate agent. They were just living their lives.

Their daughters were quite young and had gone along on a situation where they had suffered a lot of trauma in high school. They had wound up using drugs. Someone had, I believe, like taken some drugs from them and they went with some guys to try to get it.

Their daughters were quite young and had gone along on a situation where they had suffered a lot of trauma in high school. They had wound up using drugs. Someone had, I believe, like taken some drugs from them and they went with some guys to try to get it.

Their daughters were quite young and had gone along on a situation where they had suffered a lot of trauma in high school. They had wound up using drugs. Someone had, I believe, like taken some drugs from them and they went with some guys to try to get it.

back or something along those lines and then when they arrived at the house one of the guys they'd gone with wound up suddenly becoming violent and they themselves were terrified and this man ended up killing one of the guys there and the girls who had had no idea that was going to happen and who were actually being threatened in the process and who were scared for their own lives they wound up being due to the felony murder doctrine prosecuted for and found guilty of murder tell us about minnesota because they've they've made made some changes right

back or something along those lines and then when they arrived at the house one of the guys they'd gone with wound up suddenly becoming violent and they themselves were terrified and this man ended up killing one of the guys there and the girls who had had no idea that was going to happen and who were actually being threatened in the process and who were scared for their own lives they wound up being due to the felony murder doctrine prosecuted for and found guilty of murder tell us about minnesota because they've they've made made some changes right

back or something along those lines and then when they arrived at the house one of the guys they'd gone with wound up suddenly becoming violent and they themselves were terrified and this man ended up killing one of the guys there and the girls who had had no idea that was going to happen and who were actually being threatened in the process and who were scared for their own lives they wound up being due to the felony murder doctrine prosecuted for and found guilty of murder tell us about minnesota because they've they've made made some changes right

Yeah. So those the two moms I just mentioned, they did a lot of work. And then I think last year they brought about a significant legislative change that actually got their own daughters out of prison and also many other people who are in the process of appealing their convictions based on that change.

Yeah. So those the two moms I just mentioned, they did a lot of work. And then I think last year they brought about a significant legislative change that actually got their own daughters out of prison and also many other people who are in the process of appealing their convictions based on that change.

Yeah. So those the two moms I just mentioned, they did a lot of work. And then I think last year they brought about a significant legislative change that actually got their own daughters out of prison and also many other people who are in the process of appealing their convictions based on that change.

And they got bipartisan support for that bill because it is an issue that I found there is a lot of room across political divides to make changes around.

And they got bipartisan support for that bill because it is an issue that I found there is a lot of room across political divides to make changes around.

And they got bipartisan support for that bill because it is an issue that I found there is a lot of room across political divides to make changes around.

Yeah, I think it does make a lot of intuitive sense that people need to be held accountable for the things they do and the cascade of events that can unfold when you choose to engage in something dangerous. I think the question is, is our current system as it's set up,

Yeah, I think it does make a lot of intuitive sense that people need to be held accountable for the things they do and the cascade of events that can unfold when you choose to engage in something dangerous. I think the question is, is our current system as it's set up,

Yeah, I think it does make a lot of intuitive sense that people need to be held accountable for the things they do and the cascade of events that can unfold when you choose to engage in something dangerous. I think the question is, is our current system as it's set up,

pushing, due to these hyper-punitive sentences that really kind of came out of the war on drugs era, these crackdowns of such extreme sentences, even just the construct of mandatory life in prison without parole, without any capacity to have discretion about what really took place, what really was the fact pattern at play here.

pushing, due to these hyper-punitive sentences that really kind of came out of the war on drugs era, these crackdowns of such extreme sentences, even just the construct of mandatory life in prison without parole, without any capacity to have discretion about what really took place, what really was the fact pattern at play here.

pushing, due to these hyper-punitive sentences that really kind of came out of the war on drugs era, these crackdowns of such extreme sentences, even just the construct of mandatory life in prison without parole, without any capacity to have discretion about what really took place, what really was the fact pattern at play here.

I think most people who look at a case like Sadiq's think that it is not serving us as a society, even just the costs alone to incarcerate a man for the his family for something that he was not even present for. It just doesn't really ring as justice to most people that I've spoken with across the aisle, really.