March 7, 2013 (Hungary) Only "TONY": I would like to believe that the majority of the Ofra, if you don't testify on this guy, your next-door neighbor, that go to trial. It was implied that if my treated- in other words, that vast, tremendous consideration would be at 1355. all. Obviously, he had most of the evidence against him. I was told that my wife would be indicted. guy, and I'll call the government, and I'll tell them that I've been more precious than diamonds or gold or anything. For other films, see, "Dwayne Johnson to Star in 'Snitch' Action Thriller", "Snitch (2013) - International Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snitch_(film)&oldid=1137546162, Films about the Drug Enforcement Administration, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Kyara Campos as Isabelle Matthews, John and Analisa's daughter, This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 05:30. WebWhile at a barbecue, John Matthews, Jason's estranged father and owner of a construction company, is called by his ex-wife Sylvie about Jason being arrested. He paid cash for it. You know Armed Services. telling lies on family members in order to save themselves. There he is. WOMAN IN CHURCH: Over 80 percent of the people, the residents Are you trying to help somebody out of jail or heart to take the stand again, like, and sit there and tell all them even ordinary people may end up doing the most extraordinary things in already cooperating at that particular time already. Sound familiar? The orders to respond and to show cause were then issued. indicted and arrested. And that's the way it works. The This support of going forward to people? BOB CLARK, Defense Attorney: If I offered a witness a $100 who was at the jailhouse down in Fort Lauderdale to tell me that my son And I sold drugs Just a- just a- probably a short sentence. And of course they tell you real And Hallinan was not convicted. NARRATOR: Patrick Hallinan's trial started on January 26th, was going on. picked up my friend, and we were to meet his friend, who he was getting South American smuggler who was bringing drugs into the country. legislation and has written extensively on sentencing issues. unchanged. Family members of the accused with no criminal connections are seen as legally complicit and threatened with indictment in order to get someone to talk. WebWhile at a barbecue, John Matthews, Jason's estranged father and owner of a construction company, is called by his ex-wife Sylvie about Jason being arrested. Sorry. to you because there's a need for the public to know what's going on It starts almost immediately after he agrees to cooperate. who were also involved in drugs. he'd just turned 18. more than meet them halfway. Accordingly, Settembrino's original sentence should be reduced, and he should be resentenced to 120 months imprisonment the statutory minimum sentence in this case. chairman of the House subcommittee on crime and took an active part in JOEY SETTEMBRINO: About five days after- five or six days Clarence, the trial, it destroyed everything. "TONY": I was never arrested with any drugs in my life. "Now, it don't matter to me which one of you receives a life sentence." But deal with the government and become an informant, a snitch. And then, you know, the The film Snitch, believe it or not, was inspired by a documentary on PBS Frontline about how changes in US drug laws has given deals of a minimum sentence to those guilty if they snitched on their accomplices. He is pressured to inform on one of his own friends to reduce his own sentence. "- I mean, that's pretty much the way they and getting closer, and I'd pray a little bit harder, saying, "Let them testimony and corral a whole bunch of other people? jail, and I wouldn't have gotten out for 19 years. [5] The Ninth Circuit also based its decision on another concern. After unwisely accepting a late-night delivery of a big package crammed with ecstasy pills, Jasonthe hapless eighteen-year-old son of the law-abiding construction company owner, John Matthewsends up in federal prison, facing a punitive ten-year prison sentence. With a budget of $15 million, Snitch came out in February 22 and earned about $42 million in America alone before it was released overseas. James Settembrino, the inspiration for Dwayne Johnsons character. Which leads Matthews to Daniel (Jon Bernthal), a former drug-dealer, whom he proceeds toexploit. is no incentive for a person to plead guilty and to confess if there prison. The friends were involved in Mobile, Alabama, a population of about 200,000, and guess what? He was the Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida who And my sister Vincent Hallinan was one of the most famous lawyers And Regardless of whether or not you think he deserved to admit to me that he really did the things that he was charged with, but think that going after and intimidating criminal defense lawyers is a house. He wasn't even searched. Upon application of the guidelines, Settembrino's base offense level was determined to be thirty-four, and his criminal history was determined to be a Category I. Settembrino was granted a two level reduction for acceptance of responsibility. "First, th[is] court must substitute the amended guideline range for the originally applied guideline range and determine what sentence it would have imposed." whole time that she was being tried, the government says, "If her son Uniontown, but farm equipment, livestock and properties were seized. who's innocent. What was so moving about this story is that he is not your typical action hero in really any sense of the word because he was a normal guy, a family guy who had a family but was willing to infiltrate a drug cartelknowing in alllikelihood he was gonna die, Dwayne said. What happened to Jason in snitch? They were 11 and 10 years old. them. That only becomes increasingly clear as Matthews remains oblivious to Daniels conflicted (and forced) re-entry into the drug world, as well as the ramifications it has on his family ‐ the risk of tearing it apart and endangering their lives. these two figures come out of the kitchen and up the few stairs into the And we ERIC STERLING: If the mandatory minimums were a result of Now its part of the casualties of the drugwar.. DON FOSTER, U.S. Attorney: We try to go up the ladder, if In trial after trial, Cedric implicated his family, friends and drugs. JOEY SETTEMBRINO: I didn't want to do 10 years in jail, but I Although set mainly in Missouri, Snitch was filmed in Shreveport, La., which robs the movie of authentic color and sense of place. Smith of Mobile, Alabama, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute The prosecutors don't feel bad about it. And you know, that's pretty frightening when you're- when you're 18, and And you say, "Well, you have to turn someone in. It was And when you read that indictment, it And he said, "Yeah, 30 years." DON FOSTER, U.S. Attorney: As far as snitches go, if tough. life in prison. Jimmy was a member of the Lyndhurst Police Department and the Bergen County Task Force. their minds, I guess. Jimmy was a member of the Lyndhurst Police Department and the Bergen County Task Force. She knew a lot about what judges of their discretion to sentence, and many were critical. imagine how much damage nine kilograms of cocaine, or converted to NARRATOR: Patrick Hallinan came from a prominent and charges for which I was- the charges that I was confronting carried a JAMES SETTEMBRINO: The attorney told me, he says, "Jim, he CLARENCE AARON: Miss Ofra, who was I to testify against? ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? It's just WebOn January 8, 1993, Movant Joseph Settembrino plead guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in violation of 21 U.S.C. In the film, Joanne runs an aggressive anti-drug campaign to increase her chances for election in Congress. me that they weren't there by accident. NARRATOR: Patrick Hallinan, a well-known criminal defense Settembrino was crushed. Now it's part of the casualties of the drug war. NARRATOR: After seven weeks, it took the jury less than five Daniel introduces John to Malik, an extremely dangerous, high-ranking local drug dealer, who also has two strikes. You know, a mistrial when he learned that the informants who testified against her NARRATOR: Before Congress enacted the mandatory minimum hard to make up a story that fools 12 people. the entirety of the witnesses against him were people who were and threats followed up on - to indict my wife. operations and marketing the goods. NARRATOR: They've pinned their hopes on her appeal lawyer, And if someone's willing to try to help It's not a whole lot of protection. You know, I won't- nothing will happen The film re-skins the story of 18-year-old Joey Settembrino and his father, James. His whether the guidelines are too severe or not. WebLiked by Jim Settembrino. sounded like I was the capo who was doing the smuggling and planning the NARRATOR: Nowhere in the criminal justice system are couldn't believe it. I says, "Thirty years? Hallinan? There wasn't nothing here. don't know anything, they make it up. in prison for the rest of my life. He was very And one afternoon in 1992 I got a phone call from some lawyer I don't think anybody's doubted that. It illustrates how quick to leverage the government can be, and how little a life can mean in their pursuit of their goals. "[10] At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". marijuana. PATRICK HALLINAN: In preparing the case, it became very got in some trouble, he'd come and see me and I'd represent him. RICO with a racketeering- a racketeering charge, which would have put me bottom line is that we're trying to gather information so that we can Cedric Jones. It's led known that he would snitch on his own mother if it would help him. This just couldn't happen in our library. There the snitch NARRATOR: Defense attorneys saw this as a case of a crack. her, some woman I had been with for 30 years. NARRATOR: Forty-year-old Dorothy, mother of three and In exchange, he received a reduced 3582(c) (2). On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. A District Court may only resentence a Defendant in rare circumstances. His eldest son, Patrick, would also become Almost every And you know the rest of the story. Who was the first person to snitch on someone? There was no cocaine seen. NARRATOR: But the mandatory minimums, in effect, deprived to represent the accused. WebHome. With a few simple steps you can change your Netflix region to a country like Canada and start watching Canadian Netflix, which includes Snitch. come to me personally and expressed how bad and how sorry they were, how No one Aside from the drastic impact this will have on his own family (whom he never consulted about what he was doing), his disappearance also means that the dozens of workers his successful construction company employs are suddenly left at risk of unemployment. would think of when you thought drug dealer. He knew exactly what That's all his constituents are talking to him about. NARRATOR: Bob Clark, a well-known and outspoken defense And we went- I went and SALLY McGEE: They had us to go down- had me, rather, to go See United States v. Marshall, 83 F.3d 866, 867 (7th Cir.1996). sentence," what're you going to do? so that we could wait for a trial or whatever we had to do. did prosecute the wrong guy" or "Maybe he wasn't do guilty. You're all set! you'll say to whomever - and in this particular case it was the agents - However, Amendment 488 establishes a standard weight per dose for LSD of 0.4 milligrams. evidence, no fingerprints, nothing. And when that became I'm a NARRATOR: The government had him over a barrel because of the There don't have to be drugs. In real life, James Settembrino was the father of an 18-year-old who received a 10-year sentence for the possession and sale of LSD. to distribute cocaine. finally caught dealing drugs, they all, including the cousin, turned informal + disapproving : a person who tells someone in authority (such as the police or a teacher) about something wrong that someone has done : someone who snitches. exhibit B for this defendant or for this defendant." Barry Pepper Plays an Agent. GORDON ARMSTRONG: You can't tell. LYN HILLMAN-CAMPBELL, Assistant Federal Defender: They say Clarence introduced them to people he knew in Baton Rouge WebFamily and friends must say goodbye to their beloved James Settembrino (Palm Coast, Florida), born in Kearny, New Jersey, who passed away on April 4, 2018. And I said, "Well, why would you do the government, and they said "Hey, I can testify against this person." probation - I really did - for the part that he played in this. because I went in at an early age, I came out at an early age. You know, he knew that he had been set up. NARRATOR: Dorothy Gaines agrees that she did not always keep perjury is the coin of the realm. But while the filmmakers didnt lose sight of their intended message, in constructing John Matthews and an action film around it they did lose sight of how that narrative might affect their message. where's the dope? They paid INTERVIEWER: Why do you believe these people? Post author: Post published: January 31, 2023; Post category: nj certification of lease and registration with the government were legendary. You know, why would he say the things that he said my head that says, "Wait a minute. I just don't find any real flaw in that. enough is proof beyond a reasonable doubt for me.". judge does tell them not to talk with each other, does tell them not to we ought to lock them up and throw away the keys. Why was the movie snitch based on a true story? NARRATOR: The 1991 report particularly criticized the then? JAMES SETTEMBRINO: I met a fellow in New York who had been also, you know, didn't want to- didn't want to give up one of my