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Scottsboro Boys: Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

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In the document The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states; “innocent until proven guilty”. In the novel The Scottsboro Boys written by one of the nine, Haywood Patterson tells us about his tragic experience he had to go through for over ten years of his life. The Scottsboro Boys were innocent because of the lack of witnesses from the scene, Racist acts against them in court and small amount of evidence against the boys.
One of the reasons that the Scottsboro Boys were innocent was because of the lack of witnesses from the scene. Throughout the four trials against the boys there were only ever two true witnesses that were from the scene. These two were Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. It was the nine black mens word against the two white

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