According to the Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has chosen Daniel H. Birman who spent six years producing and directing the 2011 documentary Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story to direct the feature Netflix has acquired, which will tell the story of Brown and her period of incarceration and clemency. Daniel H. Birdman is a University of Southern California professor and filmmaker. A week after Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder in 2004 at the...
Criminal Justice
Cyntoia Brown who was granted clemency by former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, will be a free woman today. She will be released to parole supervision on Wednesday August 7, 2019. This comes 15 years after her arrest in 2004 for murdering a Nashville man when she was 16 years old. Brown was a sex trafficking victim when she killed Jimmy Allen during an exchange at his home while in...
Cyntoia Brown who was granted clemency by former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, will be a free woman today. She will be released to parole supervision on Wednesday August 7, 2019. This comes 15 years after her arrest in 2004 for murdering a Nashville man when she was 16 years old. Brown was a victim of sex trafficking when she killed Jimmy Allen during an exchange at his home while...
Activists were escorted from Democratic debate for disrupting Bill de Blasio’s opening address. Activists shouted “Fire Pantaleo” during Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio’s opening speech at the presidential debate held last night in Detroit, MI. The five activists were escorted out of the Fox Theater by police after being asked to leave. The activists, all well-known in the activist community, were Tamika D. Mallory (co-President of the Women’s March,...
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