It’s official, and it’s one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the first…
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HOST INTRODUCTION: There’ve been a series of terrorist attacks in Europe, and now France, one of the countries hardest hit, is adjusting to this elevated threat. Last week, the French parliament passed yet another law…
“My wife called me saying, ‘Halim, there were some very big serious police officers who just came to the house.’” – Halim Abdelmalek Europe has suffered a series of terrorist attacks, and now France, one…
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For eighteen years, California’s three strikes law leveled harsh penalties against repeat felons: anyone with two felony convictions received 25 years to life for committing a third felony. In 2012, Californians voted to change the three strikes law, allowing some of the prisoners sentenced under it to petition for release for time served. Curtis Penn is one of those prisoners. Life of the Law executive producer Nancy Mullane chronicles the day Curtis was released from prison.
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