“This is not what we normally do. We do land use, real estate, development law. Heck, I can get you zoning to be an airport if that’s what you want. But I don’t represent inmates, I don’t represent people charged with crime, I don’t represent criminals.”
— Land Use attorney Joshua Safran
In most cases, the worlds of criminal law and land use law never meet. But in Crime After Crime, a documentary that is an official selection in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (among other international festivals), two land use lawyers including our ABA State & Local Government Law Section colleague Nadia Costa (Vice-Chair of the Section’s Land Use Committee), enter a different milieu:
CRIME AFTER CRIME is the exclusive documentary film on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.
This is definitely on our to-watch list.