Noura Jackson being interviewed by Jason Flom board member of the Innocence Project on Bloomberg news./Innocence Project’s Jason Flom on Criminal Justice Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYeV070wlgM

https://www.tncourts.gov/courts/court-criminal-appeals/opinions/2012/12/10/state-tennessee-v-noura-jackson

https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/jacksonnouraopn.pdf

https://www.tncourts.gov/courts/supreme-court/opinions/2014/08/22/state-tennessee-v-noura-jackson

https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/jacksonn_opn.pdf

Consult with an attorney like Binder & Binder or Morgan & Morgan. They won’t take your case if they think they can’t win. They won’t charge you if they don’t win. If they do take your case don’t let them charge you over 25% of your back pay. I’m sure what the maximum amount they can charge but I’ve heard that by law they can’t charge over 25% of the back pay.

Derek, do you know how I can go about applying? I suffer from depression and anxiety disorders from all this. Can’t find and keep a job. Thanks

The registry has caused me to lose almost every job I had. I did work for a while as a janitor cleaning banks. The owner was bonded so that covered me too. But he kept sending me to banks so far from my house to clean, that the round trip gas cost more than I made doing to cleaning.
What ever the contract cost was, I only got a small percentage. I think I got $75 a week to do one bank 5 nights a week. Took about 90 minutes to empty trash, mop, clean windows, clean all the counter, clean the bathrooms etc. That is $15 a night and it cost me $10 in gas to get there and back home.

On a side note something that was very ironic to me at the time was I used to screen print all the PE clothes and spirit clothes for the local 40 or 50 schools in 3 different counties. I also used to make all the police officers shirts for like their softball games and things like that. I used to have to sit down with the officers and they would describe what they want for a design for a shirt and they never really knew I had a record or at least they didn’t show it. They were always pretty respectful to me and I made sure they got what they wanted because they never did anything to me. I’m not a bitter person again somebody that doesn’t have anything to do with me.

Maestro

Any felony conviction is seen by society and perspective employers as a “character flaw.” If that wasn’t bad enough, compound that stigma with the hit list label stigma and it’s basically social death.

Maybe not “just” because you are on the registry, though one SSI agent told me that because the legal definition of a disability is anything that keeps you from obtaining and maintaining gainful employment, being a registered person meets that definition, but in my case, I had struggled with depression, anxiety disorders, and BPD even before I went down for my offense. Of course, being an RC has exacerbated my problems.

So I can’t say you would get it because of being an RC, but does registry status not cause you a variety of issues like PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety Disorders? Like nearly any physical ailment, people can get mentally ill later in life. Not every person struggles with mental illness their whole lives, but may experience an event that causes them to fall ill, like the stress of being subject to a myriad of draconian laws that change on the whims of victim-centric legislatures.

You are not the “Christian” I was referring to. I assumed you’d have caught on. You’re not the one turning people away for jobs or putting them on a lifetime registry or retroactively putting them on a registry. Please understand who I am referring to and stop defending YOURself when I mention “Christians”.
Even when I was into Christianity, I would still say what I say about people who claim to be so “Christ like” (and I’m not talking about being cut off on a highway).
I don’t mean to come off rude to you, Cherokee, but come on.
And my opinion is my opinion.