Felony Miami

Felony Miami explores the disparities in the criminal justice system and the intersection of those disparities and the arts. In this exploration, Felony Miami seeks to educate, entertain, enlighten and contribute towards the improvement and fairness of the system. Felony Miami intends to do this by bringing together thought leaders, decision makers the system and in the arts to examine the current state of being, in which the arts can contribute to this exploration and improvement.

Trauma, hate, distrust, fear, frustration, tears, disgust, abuse, resentment. These are some of the effects of doing time. For every Malcolm X, there are ten million felons whose names you’ll never know, who never shake their past. Society breeds impropriety; and careless citizens through the infected soul of American democracy.

Broke, busted, tapped out, lost in the woods, dissolute, naked in the winter wiped out, over lev’d, indigent, penniless, gone fishin’, in the poor house, itinerant, rambling, povertized, compromised, chaptered, scrambling, crumbling … Bankrupt! Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let’s air it out.

Four walls, steel bars, and a saline drip. Concrete bed, bologna sandwich, convulsions, embolism, heart rate speeding like a freight train through your chest plate. The fear is gripping and real. It's not just that you are going to jail, it's that you might have a medical issue. And the thought of going into the prison health care system is causing half the symptoms. Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let's air it out.

Private prisons are the scourge of civilization. The food is awful, the water tastes like it came from a gutter in Flint, Michigan, and sending an email costs more than a Rolls Royce lease payment. The U.S. the number one spot for the most people in cages. Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let's air it out

There’s a reason that South Florida is the fraud capital of America, and it’s all built on a house of cards that the contractor skipped out on after an all cash transfer from your bank account to their sense of moral bankruptcy. Where there is injustice for one, there’s injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami, let’s air it out.

Productivity is usually a good thing. But not when it comes to mass incarceration. In fact, the harassing, and stalking, and arresting, and incarcerating, and ruining the records of those who are guilty of victimless so-called crimes, is one of the greatest problems in America today. Today we invite three veteran attorneys, one of whom is running for circuit court judge. to help us understand the problems and the solutions.

Lies. Truth. Some people live it, some people tell it, and some people mix both into one and don't do either very well. When it comes to the criminal justice system, it's been said that there are three sides to every story: His, hers, and the truth. No matter which category you fall into, there's one thing you should never do: if you're on the other side of the interrogation table, don't talk. Not a single word, other than, "Lawyer."

From Medellín to Mexico; Panama to Bogotá; and Sinaloa to South Miami, in the 1980's, the South American drug trade began its assault on the shores of the USA. It brought money, violence, and really bad bad-guys. Enter the DEA, a force of highly skilled and seasoned law enforcement officers with one goal: take down the drug traffickers, corner drug dealers and users, and stop at nothing until they were all locked up. Today, we hear the WHY of it from three of Miami's finest.

There’s blood in the mud, cocaine in the evidence room, and millions of pages of arrest reports. To say that there’s been a lot of crime committed in Miami is the understatement of the century. When it comes to solving crimes, and closing cases out three guests today are experts in the field. Real life Miami vice investigators

Ok so this is episode 13...it's an intermission episode between Season 1 of Felony Miami and our next upcoming Season 2. What we've prepared for you is a little taste of what happens after the show ends and the microphones are still on. Enjoy these little hidden snippets from Felony Miami, and we'll be with you on Season 2 next time.

Money, power, respect. If you’ve got the first one, you can buy the rest. If you’ve got power, you can get the money, take money, or make the money.  And if you’ve got respect, people will give you everything they work for. But if you don’t have any of those, good luck making the other two count for anything. It’s up to us to knock it down because where there is injustice for one, theres injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let’s air it out.

Beating the system, convincing the jury, making a deal, smashing the state, crushing the closing, destroying the evidence…Wait, maybe not destroying the evidence….Suppressing the evidence and manipulating the system all in the name of constitutionality. Whatever you’ve gotta do to get out of jail, your criminal defense lawyer is there to do it for you. If you can afford it.

Anarchy, calamity, destruction, disorder, the annihilation of civility, the total breakdown of society, the end of all order and descent into chaos. These are the results that those in power fear, and their pretext for crushing the souls of millions under the steel toed boot of the criminal justice system. Just because it’s a man-made law, doesn’t make it righteous. It is in this system that we seek justice, for where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all.

If you end up on the wrong side of the law, you’re probably going to get offered one of theses deals: It's called a plea bargain. But is this a game of let's make a deal, the price is right, the wheel of fortune, or double jeopardy? The plea bargain is a negotiation between the prosecution and the defense in order to reduce the amount of cases that will go to trial in an already over burdened criminal justice system.