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Podcast: Slam the Gavel
Episode: When Crime Becomes Punishment By DCFS, By Putting Children In Harms Way; With Jerry Nicholas
Description:   Slam the Gavel welcomes Jerry Nicholas to the podcast. From Chicago, IL Jerry has become an advocate for other parents who have had their children wrongfully removed.   His two sets of twins were at school that morning in 1993, ages 5 and 6 thinking they would be protected at school. However, his children never got off the bus. Jerry and his wife called the police to report them missing. The police came to their home, forcing their way in to remove his other four children. He tried to report them missing.    Law enforcement seized his children without a search warrant on 7-27-1...