Please register to receive a password-protected screening link. The Vanishing Trial will be available for viewing from Friday, June 12 at 5:00 PM ET to Monday, June 15 at 5:00 PM ET.

The screening will be followed by a virtual panel discussion on Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:00 PM ET featuring Sakira Cook, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Brittany K. Barnett, Buried Alive Project, Clark Neily, Cato Institute, and Norman Reimer, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The panel will be streamed via Facebook Live on both FAMM and NACDL's Facebook page.

Imagine you're charged with a crime. Now you must choose between pleading guilty and receiving a shorter sentence–or going to trial and risking decades behind bars.

“The Vanishing Trial” focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead of pleading guilty. We see how the trial penalty has led to the shocking disappearance of one of the most fundamental individual rights and the explosion in America's prison population.