Peagler

Shawn and our Warehouse Manager Seth Peagler are hugely instrumental in taking care of a lot of the nuts and bolts on-the-floor work at the show, not to mention the rest of our staff and a massive army of volunteers.

Talking Comics with Tim: Dustin Harbin | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

The latest from OWN's Documentary Club is Crime After Crime 9/8c, about the legal battle to reopen the case of Deborah Peagler, a victim of domestic abuse serving a 25-year prison sentence for her connection to her boyfriend's murder. ...

Critic's Guide to Thursday TV: Return of Bones and Burn Notice and More! 2011

Throughout the film, Peagler is a model of grace, restraint and heartbreaking inspiration.

SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle davidlewis@sfchronicle.com (David Lewis 2011

It's the story of Deborah Peagler, a California woman who, when we first meet her, is past the 20-year mark in a life sentence for the 1982 murder of her boyfriend, Oliver Martin.

The Seattle Times 2011

About two decades later, as Peagler still languishes at Chowchilla, land-use attorneys Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa galvanized by a new state law that factors domestic abuse into appeals take up her case pro bono, with the help of private investigator Bobby Buechler.

SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle davidlewis@sfchronicle.com (David Lewis 2011

But the story is far more complicated than that: We learn that Peagler, a likable woman with a warm smile and soaring voice in the prison choir, was a victim of domestic violence at Martin's hands, that he forced her into prostitution and may have molested her daughter.

The Seattle Times 2011

We meet Peagler's family members and Martin's, who support Peagler's release, and come to know a woman who never gave up hope, even when the story takes on a tragic final twist.

The Seattle Times 2011

Land-use attorneys Nadia Costa and Joshua Safran had little experience in criminal law but spent years working on Peagler's case

The Seattle Times 2011

"It really did feel like a marathon roller coaster moving in slow motion," said director Yoav Potash by phone last week of the more than five years of pro bono legal wrangling that eventually earned Deborah Peagler her freedom.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011

'Crime After Crime' will make you angry and sad "Crime After Crime," which opens Aug. 26 at Seattle's Northwest Film Forum, is a vivid documentary about Deborah Peagler, a California abuse victim given a life sentence for murdering her boyfriend.

The Seattle Times 2011