Due Process, the award-winning public television series on law and justice that is produced in partnership with Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has received its 25th regional Emmy Award.
Winner of the Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the Interview/Discussion Program/Special category, the show “McGreevey Redux” features a candid conversation with former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey. Interviewed by Due Process co-hosts journalist Sandra King and criminal defense and civil rights attorney Raymond Brown. McGreevey, now a candidate for the Episcopal priesthood and a counselor to women in jail, talks about the disconnect between his personal and professional life before resigning the governorship in 2004 and today.
Due Process airs each week on Saturdays on WNET Thirteen and on Sundays and Tuesdays on NJTV. The series ran on New Jersey Network from 1996 until NJN went off the air in 2011, at which time it found a new base at the law school and a new production home at Rutgers iTV studio.
Among the Rutgers University–Newark experts on social, legal and policy issues who have appeared in recent shows are, from the law school, Acting Dean Ronald Chen and professors Elise Boddie, Douglas Eakeley, Taja-Nia Henderson, and George Thomas; from the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor James Goodman; from the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and Modern Experience, Clement Price; from the School of Criminal Justice, Lori Scott-Pickens; and from the Abbott Leadership Institute, Junius Williams.
Last spring the series won New York Emmys for the shows “$$=Freedom: Bail,” which looked at the pivotal role of money in the pretrial system of justice, and “Good Samaritan,” about a bill, signed into law in 2013, that provides immunity from arrest to those who call 911 to report a drug overdose. All 19 seasons of the series are available at www.dueprocesstv.rutgers.edu.
Due Process is a production of the law school in association with the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Division of Continuing Studies. Those sharing in the Emmy for the “McGreevey Redux” show include Sandra King as producer/host and executive producers Ronald Chen, Dr. Raphael Caprio of the Bloustein School, Michael A. Alden, Dale Badway, and Ken Mahoney.
Photo caption: Shown at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards ceremony are (l-r): Rutgers–Newark Law School Vice Dean Reid Weisbord; Due Process executive producers Michael Alden and Dale Badway; producer/host Sandra King; executive producer Ken Mahoney; and co-producer Tania Bentley.
