Public Appearances and Events
Minnesota Criminal Defense Attorney Jack Rice has spent decades in the legal trenches and is frequently called upon to explain how the system works to media outlets across Minnesota and the planet including The New York Times, Reuters, Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, Univision, CNN, BBC, Newsweek, CBC, NBC Nightly, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, Court TV, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Kare 11, WCCO, KSTP, NPR, MPR, AM950 & more.
Criminal Defense and Human Rights Lawyer Appears on Arabic TV to Talk Genocide.
With another blow to American/Turkish relations, President Biden acknowledged the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This has been in dispute between the two countries for many years. However, the U.S. has been moving toward this for some time. In 2019, there was a joint resolution by both Houses of Congress. In addition, even President Reagan talked about the “Armenian Genocide in context of the Holocaust. However, this was the first time the a sitting President took such a bold stand. It should be added, relations have continued to deteriorate between President Erdogan and multiple U.S. administrations.
Rule of Law only works if everybody buys into it. To ignore genocide only serves to encourage it.
As Minnesota based criminal defense attorney, Jack walks into courtrooms everyday to defend his clients’ rights. This is critical. At the same time, Rule of Law and an acknowledgment of pasty wrongs is equally critical if we are to have legal systems around the world that are seen as legitimate. This is the reason Jack trained at the International Criminal Court. This is why he has worked teaching trial advocacy in Russia, Republic of Georgia, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and on and on and on.
Jack appeasr on RT Arabic with an immediate translation throughout the Arabic world today to discuss the Human right impact that this decision could have. He is hopeful that an announcement will eventually lead to an acknowledgement.
Jack Rice is the founder of Jack Rice Defense, a Minnesota based criminal defense law firm. He is a former prosecutor, a Board Criminal Law Speclialst, and a criminal defense attorney. In addition, he teaches trial advocacy all over the world to bot prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys.
Criminal Justice Reform Restorative Justice Model Could Become the Blueprint Nationwide
This has been quite a journey. For the last six months, Attorney Willow Anderson and I have been working on Mike Forcia’s case, pro bono. He was charged with felony criminal damage to property for pulling down the statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the Capitol in St. Paul on June 10, 2020.
In that time, we have been working on a restorative justice and even a transformative justice model to address what happened, how it impacted various communities and how to address the harm of pulling down the statue and even the harm that putting the statue up had on other people. This is not simple and absolutely does not fit into a soundbite.
We appeared or were referenced on KARE 11, Fox 9, WCCO Radio, Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, MPR are more following the hearing before Chief Judge Leonardo Castro in Ramsey County. Today, Judge Castro accepted agreement that will insure that Mr. Forcia’s case will be dismissed outright in the event that he does 100 hours of community service doing restorative justice and he writes a letter addressing the harm caused. To help make this happen has been nothing short of an honor for both of us.
It has been extraordinary and Ms. Anderson and I will certainly see this as a career highlight for both of us.