Sorry for the length, but was interested in this person that req'd. the interview, Olivia Klaus, and found quite a bit that may explain her interest in JA. She's a documentary filmmaker who describes DV as her passion (and IMO her livelihood). A subject of her first documentary ”Sin by Silence”(2009), is a woman named Brenda Clubine who served 26 yrs. in prison for killing her husband in 1983 . In 1989 Brenda started a prison support group for abused women called Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) - the group has worked on gaining clemency for 20 (to date) DV victims and recently helped (along w/Olivia) to get legislation passed that expanded Battered Woman’s Syndrome legally. Once Battered Woman’s Syndrome was established in 1991, Brenda apparently was quite the media darling and self-described example for the issue, leading to several groups clamoring for her release. Not everyone bought her DV “tale of woe” because of facts found in court transcripts and her “widely contradictory accounts” of the murder.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10...da-clubine-sue-osthoff-murder-trial-testimony
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In 2001 Olivia Klaus began attending CWAA meetings as a volunteer – in addition to Clubine, one of her later documentary subjects is Patricia Krenwinkel (Charles Manson case), a member of this group. Clubine was transferred to the prison where Olivia volunteered in 2007 and she is one of the people Clubine credits with getting her release in 2008, but there is another one. When reading Clubine's blog, I noticed that Clubine wrote a very sympathetic article on JA, and in it she mentions ALV who she describes as “Alyce is an incredible woman who was one of the few people who believed my side of the story during my trial and continued to stand by me the entire 26 years I was incarcerated”.
Clubine is now a DV speaker & advocate who continues working on legal issues and gaining clemency. She established and actively collects for “The Sin by Silence Bills Fund” which funds legal expenses for inmates to petition for resentencing. Am I the only one that sees another supposed DV victim/media darling/fundraiser in these women’s future, once Maricopa County & Arpaio lose control of JA’s interviews? We are never going to be rid of this evil person, I’m afraid…
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