Alison A.Hicks interview on the Lawless America Show - Episode #35. Bill Windsor asks Alison to return so he can also get Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to five questions from Alison. Alison, author of "Backspin", is an activist and works for the Innocence Project to help raise awareness of how citizens are falsely arrested by Sheriff Joe and his goons in Maricopa County, by inhumane tactics, and how Arpaio pressures to people for money, power and control.
Tent City Trailer - produced by Alison A. Hicks and Brian Town, Michigan Creative Media. Director/Producer, Video, Web, Certified Final Cut and Apple Training. 517-899-4533
MORE:See Alison A. Hicks, featured speaker at the
Arizona State Capitol during the Freedom
March for the Wrongfully Convicted,
October, 2010. See Part 1 here.
See Part 2 here.
Michael Manning speaks of wrongful death cases in Maricopa County - and millions of dollars of taxpayer money wasted. See here.
Read the OCCUPY Phoenix Protest SPEECH
By Alison A. Hicks
Download PDF here
EXPOSED!
Crimes within Arizona’s
Criminal Justice System! Each day in Maricopa County, Arizona, a person is
wrongfully arrested. Jury awards against County Sheriff Arpaio and others have
cost taxpayers millions. It’s a justice system that has cost careers, families, lives. “BackSPIN,” the movie, details the story of tennis pro Alison Hicks – wrongfully arrested, wrongfully accused – and her nightmare in the hands of an Arizona court.
Alison A. Hicks on The Lou Show 2/5/12
View here! Oakenshield Commits to BackSPIN Movie!
Rod Johns writes:
I became involved in this project in mid 2011 when Alison Hicks sent me a copy of her story BackSPIN.
After reading BackSPIN I was enthralled by Alison’s story and appalled at how an innocent young woman’s life could be devastated by a series of escalating events and that such injustice could happen in modern American society.
Since then, as Alison continues to fight for justice for herself and others caught up in this system, I’ve been doing research on Alison’s life, Jo Arpaio and his notorious ‘Tent City’, and putting together a film treatment based on Alison’s life story: how she has had to fight an ongoing battle through the court and justice system proving she was falsely arrested, imprisoned in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious ‘Tent City’ and had her career as a successful professional tennis coach stripped from her, almost lost her daughter Jess (Jessann), and had her life ruined.
I was further attracted to this project by the fact that after being wrongfully convicted, and having to fight with every last bit of strength she had, Alison has dedicated a great part of her life to trying to right these wrongs, bring them to public notice, and get the public to accept that unjustified, and serious wrongs have been inflicted on her and numerous others by County Sheriff Jo Arpaio and the State of Arizona Criminal Justice System.
As Alison continues to fight for justice, and as part of this ongoing campaign, I’m now in the process of signing a collaboration agreement with Alison and putting together a film treatment based on how these events came close to ruining her life and making her enthralling, sometime horrific and heartrending, and almost unbelievable story (which in different circumstances could have befallen any of us) into a feature drama film with shades or Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich and Niki Caro’s North County.
A single mom trapped in a downward spiral to the depths of her soul.An excessively zealous Sheriff who passes judgement and sees all who enter his jail—convicted or not—as hardened criminals.A flawed criminal system that could destroy any one of us.
If not for the favorable and encouraging exposure of the news media, Alison could still have been caught in that system.Alison eventually was exonerated of all charges.
Thanks to the love and support of her daughter Jessann—along with family & friends—she survived what could have been a trip of no return.
Alison recounts her experience in “BackSPIN”, providing hope for others.
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