Community, Solitary Confinement Explored in @hermansfilm Tonight at @_SMoCA (by @weissguy )

Tonight, a film will be screened at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art that may interest lawyers and many others who seek to examine the U.S. corrections system. (Jump to the bottom for times, tickets, etc.)

Herman’s House is a feature documentary that explores what the filmmakers understatedly call “the unlikely friendship between a New York artist and one of America’s most famous inmates as they collaborate on an acclaimed art project.”

The inmate is Herman Joshua Wallace, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on a bank robbery sentence. While he served his sentence, though, he and a fellow prisoner were accused of murdering an Angola (La.) prison guard, which landed him in solitary confinement. Though claims have been made that he may be innocent of the death charge (including claims by a widow of the guard), he has remained in solitary confinement for decades.

The film opens with an artist forming and sanding a uniquely shaped object: Is it an egg? Perhaps a stylized womb?

 

Technology Tools Ramped Up by @AZStateBar

My plan for today was to describe a fascinating movie that will be screened tomorrow night (Thursday). But then I stayed up far too late watching every possible election return (“Don’t turn it off! The Snohomish County School Board votes are being tallied!”). Democracy can be exhausting. And so, instead, the film update will come tomorrow. Today, I offer you some news from right here in the State Bar news world.

Here are two developments that could help improve your access to legal information.

Did you know:

• The Arizona Attorney Magazine Blog Network now has an RSS feed? It’s true. Thanks to the insight of a viewer (who said, essentially, How could you not have an RSS feed?), you now don’t have to guess when we add new content. Instead, if you sign up for the feed, you will know every time I add a new legal blogger, and when our featured “lead bloggers” alternate. Don’t forget to sign up and/or bookmark the Blog Network, and contact me at arizona.attorneyt@azbar.org  if you want your blog listed.
• The State Bar has an electronic newsletter dedicated to technology items? Well, it does. This quarterly news source provides a wide variety of headlines on topics that may affect your law practice. In fact, a new edition just arrived. You can read it here.

Gotta go; the recount for the Artichoke, Minnesota, justice of the peace race is heating up. See you tomorrow.

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