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Washington State Chapter: Combating Hate Crimes: The Role of Lawyers and the Legal System
The FBA Washington State Chapter and Karr Tuttle Campbell jointly invite you to join us for “Combating Hate Crimes: The Role of Lawyers and the Legal System”. The program includes a screening of “Vincent Who?” with award winning director Curtis Chin.
Vincent Who? is a documentary film that was released in 2009. It details the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin that occurred in Detroit, Michigan. Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two Detroit autoworkers, who had mistakenly thought that he was Japanese and, in their minds, was responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry. Chin’s killers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, were originally charged with second-degree murder but were allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Judge Charles Kaufman, who sentenced them to three years’ probation and a $3,000 fine, explained his leniency by saying, “These weren’t the kind of men you send to jail.”
Agenda
6:00 – 7:00 PM Screening of Vincent Who?
7:00 – 7:30 PM Panel Discussion
7:30 – PM Reception
Panel
- Kripa Upadhyay, Event Moderator
- Nick Brown: US Attorney for the Western District of WA
- Hunter Abell: President Elect of the Washington State Bar Association
- Ron Friedman: Board Member at Holocaust Center for Humanity (He is also a former US Attorney and current shareholder at KTC)
- Jeff Liang: President of the Asian Bar Association Student Scholarship Fund
- John Cummings: Former Pierce County Prosecutor and LGBTQIA Advocate
Registration
Registration Fee:
- FBA Member & Non Member – FREE
RSVP: http://www.fedbar.org/NO-URL-use-the-email-please-thanks
CLE
Please note CLE will not be offered for this event.
If you have any questions regarding this program, please contact ejohnson@karrtuttle.com.