Seale's Involvement In Court

While future president John F. Kennedy was campaigning in preparation for the 1960 election, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested. Both Kennedy and his counterpart were

Reggie Clemons highlights a flaw within another area of the criminal justice system, which is the use of the death penalty in a case where no hard evidence has been found. The fact that a judge sent Clemons to a hospital after he showed up in court claiming police beat him into confession, and yet the validity of his confession was not properly assessed explains another failure in the system. The court system may very well be too overwhelmed to follow through even in the interest of justice. The fact that these cases involving questionable interrogation and mishandling within the system continue to turn up in the years following this case, shows the lack of follow through and change within the system.

King. On March 9, 1969, before coming to trial, he entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. In recent years, events in the lives of the King family have continued to reflect the tragedy and the triumph so uniquely combined in Dr. King's own life and is intrinsic, perhaps, in the lives of all dedicated persons the world over. (Intellectual Properties Management)

Dr. King was jailed for his protests, which the Alabama clergymen called “unwise and untimely.” King responded by telling of the negroes’ treatment from the past 340 years,

Of all of the demonstrators, Johnson was the only person charged with a crime. The only criminal offense with which he was charged was the desecration of a venerated object. After a trial, he was convicted, sentenced to one year in prison, and fined $2,000. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas at Dallas affirmed Johnson's conviction, but the Texas Court of

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested on April 12, 1963, in Birmingham, for having a protest without a proper permit. On the exact day King was arrested, eight clergymen from Alabama wrote a letter called “A Call for Unity.” The letter called for termination of civil activities and demonstrations and designated King an “outsider” and saying that outsiders were the problems in Birmingham and not the blacks that are from there. On April 16 King wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, which was his responds to his fellow clergymen. He wrote the letter as a means to convince the clergymen and the white moderate that the nonviolent demonstrations that had got him arrested, were a necessity and to enlighten them on why the segregation laws in the

Blanton, Jr., all KKK members—but witnesses were reluctant to talk and physical evidence was lacking. Also, at that time, information from our surveillances was not admissible in court. As a result, no federal charges were filed in the ’60s.”[11] Although Chambliss was convicted on an explosives charge, no convictions were obtained in the 1960s for the killings.

George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70's and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21, 1971. Because of this Attica inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands.

I was eventually captured on October 30, 1831 and I was represented by a lawyer named Thomas R. Gray who wrote down my confession. I pleaded not guilty during my trial because I believed my rebellion was the work of God. But, I was sentenced to death by hanging, and my sentence was carried out on November 11, 1831, and many of my coconspirators met the same fate as me. In the 1960s I became an important icon to the black power movement as an example of an African American standing up against white

He went to jail but because of sports he got released. He was on bond for two year and it wasn’t going to be good if he got in trouble during those two years. He battled racist people and sometimes he couldn’t hold back. Two times he was arrested because the people were white and hated blacks. He went to jail twice but neither times were they his fault.

1983 for violations of Garner's constitutional rights. He stated that the shooting violated the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/471/1.html) He was not particular when it came to the blame for this action, holding the Police Department, it’s Director, Officer Hymon, and the Mayor of Memphis city accountable. After a three-day bench trial, the District Court dismissed the charges against The Mayor and the city of Memphis due to a lack of sufficient evidence. Officer Hymon’s charges were dismissed the charges on the grounds that his actions were constitutional and were sanctioned by the Tennessee statute. The main question this case posed was: Does a statute authorizing use of deadly force to prevent the escape of any fleeing suspected felon violate the Fourth Amendment? Eventually, they decided it wasn’t, though this decision was not unanimous, representing a 6-3 split in the Supreme Court Justices. The three justices who were not in agreement were following the statement made by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor that “the majority went too far in invalidating long-standing common law and police practices contrary to the holding.”

By 1968, Bobby Seale was arrested while protesting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; he was tried for conspiracy to incite riots that resulted in him being sentenced to four years in prison. During Seale’s imprisonment, Fred Hampton, another crucial player, became the deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Using his NAACP experience, he established a community service program which included the provision of free breakfasts

He almost immediately wrote to an FBI office in Florida, but he was denied help. On October 30, 1961 less than thirty days from when he was sentenced he applied to the Florida Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, an order freeing him on the ground

In Kennedy Waters case, the facts where Kathrine Brow had been murdered with thirty stab wounds, bullet to her head, and gashes in her head. The police had reason to believe Kennedy was guilty for the murder. When Nancy went to try to arrest him, he had scratches on his face and cuts on his fingers. Kennedy was constantly having interaction with the police. In his yonger years, he and his sister would get picked up by the police for breaking and entering. Also, his temper got him in trouble from getting arrested and going through jail time. For example, he was disrespectful to the police, got in bar fights, and attempted to assault cops in

The first court that I attend was district court, the judge was Fernando r. macias