2/20/2026

 Friday, February 20, 2026

1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned, stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had appeased Nazi Germany

1939 The American pro-Nazi organization German American Bund held a rally at Madison Square Garden and 20,000 attend

1971 National Emergency Center erroneously ordered US radio & TV stations to go off the air. The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

2023 President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine

In bed at 9:30, up at 6.  37/29/38/28. WIND ADVISORY: NW winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.  Snowy conditions expected around 11 a.m.

Morning meds at 3 p.m.  Trulicity injection at 10 a.m.

Exchange of email with Leslie Behroozi:

Name * Charles Clausen

Email * charlesclausen2003@yahoo.com

What best describes your status? *

Retired faculty

What question do you have? *

In one of the classes I used to teach at MULS, I used a 1990 VHS BO film titled "Criminal Justice" starring Forrest Whitaker from the library. I wonder if it is still in the collection or where I might be able to access or buy a copy? I can't find it anywhere. Thank you.

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Hello!  

I hope you are doing well!  I searched our catalog for that film and was not able to find it in our collection.  To make sure, I scanned our film collection on reserve and did not see it on the shelves either.  

I also did a WorldCat search to see whether I could identify any other libraries that have it within their collections.  There are none noted near Milwaukee, but I'm not sure whether you are still in the Milwaukee area anyway.  I have attached the list of libraries that have it according to WorldCat.  I would try to contact these libraries to confirm it is within their collection before heading to a library, however; when I clicked on the link to see the University of Chicago's record, I could no longer find it in their catalog.  

If you are interested, we could try to obtain it through interlibrary loan, but I doubt that will be successful.  We do not loan out our own videos through ILL, and when we've tried to ILL videos from other libraries in the past, we have not been successful.  Given the age of the item and the format, I doubt any of the listed libraries would let it leave their facilities. 

When I did a basic Google search for the film, there were a few hits on eBay, but I did not see any other obvious purchase options.  If Google's AI overview is to be believed, it is available to watch through the Roku streaming platform, so could possibly be viewed on a Roku device.  

I hope the above is helpful.

Best regards,  Leslie 

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Dear Ms. Behroozi,  I am so indebted to you.  I have looked for this film for years.  I joined the faculty 55 years ago when I graduated from MULS in 1970.  If you're interested in who submitted this strange inquiry to you, I am one of the interviewees in the law school's oral history project.  I can no longer recall the name of the course I taught in which I had my class view this powerful Forret Whitaker film, but I recall very vividly the film's treatment of some of the human costs of our criminal justice system, and especially plea bargaining.  It is indeed available on the ROKU Channel, and I intend to watch it again tonight.  You may wish to watch it yourself if you have a ROKU device.  It also features powerful portrayals by Jennifer Grey as a prosecutor, Rosie Perez as the crime victim, and Anthony LaPaglia as the defense counsel, all superb in their roles.  I was moved to try to find it again by a novel I'm reading, which I also highly recommend, Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi, a part of which involves a legal situation like that in the HBO.  The author was a practicing lawyer and judge before leaving to become a singer-songwriter and writer, believe it or not.    Thank you so much for finding this film for me.  I'm going to recommend it to my friend who turned me on to Theo of Golden.  Thanks again.    

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 I later sent her an email informing her that, though ROKU lists the Criminal Justice as available, when a viewer tries to see it, he gets a Spanish-language Western film, titled Sin Justicia.  The search continues.