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 Show # 801:
Gay Marriage
Due Process Opens 8th Season Premiere with "Will New Jersey become the first state to make
gay marriage legal?" The award-winning Due Process
series launches its 8th season with the in-depth story
behind that controversial question. The premiere episode
features an exclusive profile of Cindy Meneghin and
Maureen Kilian of Butler, suburban mothers of two and
one of seven gay couples who have sued the state for
the right to marry in a case being watched across the
country. They've been in a committed relationship since
high school and feel they should be allowed to wed.
Are gays denied equal protection under the NJ Constitution
as the lawsuit insists? In an in-studio debate, Assemblyman
Michael Patrick Carroll says no, while Adam Aronson
of the national Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
argues in favor of the lawsuit.
Show # 802:
Under God
Will the US Supreme Court overturn a federal appellate
court decision striking those words from the Pledge
of Allegiance? "Due Process" gets a New Jersey
take on this national controversy with an intimate profile
of a Warren County waitress who has mounted a one-woman
billboard campaign to keep God in the Pledge. The studio
segment features Rev. William Howard, former president
of the National Council of Churches, Rutgers Law Assoc.
Dean Ron Chen and Assemblyman Richard Merkt (R-Morris)
Show # 803:
The Strange Case of Bobby Cumber
He was convicted as a co-conspirator in the Robert
Marshall murder-for-hire trial, but 17 years later,
the judge who sentenced him says his release is long
overdue.
Trenton State Prison Inmate Bobby Cumber and now-retired
Superior Court Judge Manuel Greenberg in their first
television interviews in this Due Process exclusive
report, followed by a debate on mandatory sentencing,
featuring NJ Public Defender Yvonne Segars, Monmouth
County 1st Asst. Prosecutor Bob Honnecker and retired
Superior and Appellate Court Judge Isaiah Steinberg.
Show # 804:
Randon Drug Testing in Schools
Due Process goes inside Hunterdon Central High School
to examine and merits and the practicality of random
drug testing of teens. Hunterdon Central has just resumed
its nearly-universal testing program, following last
year's appellate court decision which rejected ACLU
objections. Studio Guests: Kevin Kovacs, the lawyer
who won the case for Hunterdon Central; Anti-drug crusader
and former Newark detective Dave Toma, the model for
two network police dramas and Pulitzer-nominated author
Maia Salavitz, who writes on issues of drug policy and
treatment.
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# 805: The Malpractice Medical Crisis
Have the courts gone out of control on medical malpractice
judgments? Is the answer a cap on awards? A mandated
cut on premiums? Is there a middle ground between the
state's lawyers and its doctors? On this edition of
Due Process, we look at the medical malpractice crisis
that caused doctor's offices and routine care to halt
for three days. Guests to include Abbott Brown, a medical
malpractice litigator and author of NJ ICLE's NJ Medical
Malpractice Law (2001) who opposes the caps. Other guests
TBA.
Show # 806:
Maggie's Law
Should sleep-deprived drivers be prosecuted in the
same way as drunk drivers? Pending New Jersey - and
federal - legislation would make driving after staying
awake for 24 hours or more illegal. The law is named
for Maggie McDonnell, a 21-year-old college student,
killed in a head-on collision with a sleepless driver
who dozed off behind the wheel. Our field piece features
an emotional interview with Maggie's mother, the driving
force behind the proposed legislation. Congressman Rob
Andrews and the lawyer who successfully defended Maggie's
killer are tentatively scheduled as studio guests.
Show # 807:
Supreme Court Update
Show # 808:
Taking On Truancy
State law allows the courts to hold parents responsible
for their children's failure to go to school. Parents
have been fined and even jailed. But, in Newark, a municipal
court judge has initiated a unique program that partners
with local colleges, tutoring and counseling programs
to intervene in lieu of punishment.
Show # 809: Conversation with Peter Harvey, part 1
A Due Process exclusive: New Jersey's new attorney
general, the first African-American to hold the post,
in his first sit-down interview.
Show # 810 Conversation with Peter Harvey, part 2
A Due Process exclusive: New Jersey's new attorney
general, the first African-American to hold the post,
in his first sit-down interview.
Show # 811
Street Surveillance Cameras
Due Process takes to the streets of Jersey City to gauge
the effectiveness - and the citizen reaction to - video
cameras that have been set up in high crime residential
neighborhoods.
Show # 812
Legal Education
Show # 813
Jury Questions
Show # 814
Pro Se
Does the person who represents himself have a fool for a client? That’s just one of the questions raised by the growing trend of self-representation – going pro se. We follow one pro se litigant and explore the pros and cons of pro se with a former public defender, Robert Tarver, Seton Hall Law Professor Jon Romberg and Carl Frederick, President of the American Pro Se Association
Show # 815:
Conversation with Christopher Christie
Show # 816: Retrospective
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