She wanted to get away
Because she was being beaten, raped and tortured
Raped and beaten in her country
She grew tired of her country
Her homeland was politically repressive
She lost her job
She was assalted in her homeland
She was beaten
Her husband died
Why did Martha from Sierra Leone seek political asylum in the U.S.A.?
Benjamin
Jean- Claude, he was attacked in his homeland of Haiti
Maria, she can't walk
Joseph, he struggles to carry items up the stairs
Joseph, he can't use one of his arms
Joseph was struggling to stay upstairs because after losing his left arm, it became difficult for him to carry his luggage
The dog
Who was struggling to stay upstairs and why?
I did
Martha
NYD2
New Jersey Network
New Jersey Legal services
A Communications firm
Who produced Quest for Justice?
He sold his home
A machete attack
His left arm was damaged during a machete robbery attempt
Injured when attacked
He burned it
He was shot
He was attacked with a machette
He was thrown out
Why did native Haiti Jean-Claude lose his hand?
Joesph
Jean-claude
Joseph
Martha
Wesley
Joseph's case
A 54 year old man
Mark adams
Who's case did Stephen St. Hilaire find compelling?
Seek asylum
Raped and tortue
She was tortured
Vacation
To visit her brother
Just because
Beaten
To see a doctor
She was raped
She escaped from Sierra Leone to search asylum
Why did Martha come to America?
Looking good
Singing
Carrying his items upstairs
Negotiating Social Security bureaucracy by himself
Paying his bills
For Benjamin it is impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself
Carrying groceries up the stairs
Walking up the stairs
What became impossible for Benjamin?
His social security checks stopped coming
He was seeking assylum
He wanted to move to a ground floor apartment
Sell apartment
To buy a house
To get SS back
To object his cut off Social Security disability benefits?
Why was Benjamin of New Jersy seeking legal help?
The cops
Stephen St. Hilaire
Fred
Martha
Immigration
Martha, Immigration authorities
Martha was tortured in homeland and she was caught by immigration authorities while escaping
Who was tortured in homeland and who caught her?
The age of Joseph is 54 years and he lost the use of his left arm in the machete attack
54 it was injured in a car accident
54, it was injured in a machete attack
37
54
52 it was injured in a robbery
54 years old
42.5
What is the age of the Jean-Claude Joseph and what happened to his left arm?
A judge
The Legal Services of New Jersey
Legal services
No one
A Legal Services attorney named Stephen St. Hilaire
The neighbors dog
Legal aid
Who helped native Haiti Jean-Claude Joseph when his landlord would not accommodate his disability?
They say he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health
He was ugly
He lost his hand
He lied to the attorney
Overweight
He failed to return a form
Didn't return update form
Why did Social Security cut off Benjamin of Jersey City?
ABC
The New Jersey Network
NBC
PBS
The documentary, "Quest for Justice," will be aired on what network?
Isaac Benjamin
A 54-year-old naturalized citizen
Stephen St. Hilaire
Martha
Jean
Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire
Who thinks that it is difficult for people in Legal Services to decide whether to take cases.
He cannot carry bags
He cant walk
He was picky
He lost the use of his left arm and cannot carry groceries upstairs
He lost his foot
Couldn't carry anything with one arm
He was blind
He lost use of his arm
Why is it impossible for Joseph to live upstairs?
After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor. Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years. The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling. Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival. She desperately sought political asylum. Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn. The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, "Quest for Justice," to be aired 9 p.m. today on New Jersey Network. Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation. Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment. Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order. "With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs," he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm. "If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?" "It was a compelling case," said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire. "The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries," he said. Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming. He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health. "But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off," he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself. 