“Let My People Go:” Personal Reflections on Freedom and Injustice

Chester Holman III
Alan J. Tauber, First Assistant Defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia
Rabbi Andrea Weiss, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost, HUC
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., HUC President; Moderator

After spending 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Chester Hollman III was exonerated in July 2019. His heartbreaking experience, the subject of the Netflix documentary “The Innocence Files, Episode 7: Wrong Place, Wrong Time,” offers a compelling perspective on the meaning of freedom and justice as we approach Passover. Probe the larger issues of injustice and racism in our justice system today in this conversation between Holman and his attorney Alan Tauber.