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8 Duke F. L. & Soc. Change 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/dukef8 and id is 1 raw text is: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY?: EXAMINING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF PUBLIC HOUSING EVICTIONS BASED ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY LEAH GOODRIDGE AND HELEN STROMt I. INTRODUCTION As Jennie Williams sat handcuffed in the hallway of her public housing development, a police officer turned to her and said, You shoulda did it. Now you really goin' to jail.' Jennie would soon find out this was only a fraction of the hard ways that public housing residents lose constitutional rights in exchange for safety. Jennie Williams moved to Stateway Gardens, a public housing complex in Chicago, with her two young sons in 1980.2 In August 2001, as Jennie walked across the courtyard to visit a friend in an adjacent building, she was stopped by six plainclothes police officers waiting in the lobby.3 The officers demanded that she knock on apartment doors in the building so that they would not have to announce their identity to residents.4 When Jennie refused, the officers physically searched and handcuffed her.5 They threatened that if she did not help them, she would be charged with criminal trespassing.6 Reluctantly, Jennie agreed to help.7 As a resident opened the door after hearing Jennie's voice, the police rushed in and searched the apartment.8 Upset by this, Jennie refused to continue helping the police.9 On Copyright @ 2016 Leah Goodridge and Helen Strom. f Leah Goodridge is Supervising Attorney, Housing Rights Project, MFY Legal Services. Helen Strom is an Independent Researcher. She graduated from Harvard University, B.A., 2011. This article expresses only the opinion of the authors. The authors would like to thank Fitzroy Christian for suggesting this topic and Shabana Shahabuddin, Rajiv Jaswa, Jason Blumberg and Matthew Main for their helpful comments. Lastly, the authors thank the journal's editors for their tireless work. 1. Jamie Kalven, One Strike: Jennie Williams Part I, ViewfromtheGround.com, June 18, 2002, http://viewfromtheground.com/archive/2002/06/one-strike-jennie-williams-part-i/. 2. Id. 3. Id. 4. Id. 5. Id. 6. Id. 7. Id. 8. Id. 9. Id. 1

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