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Cotton then confronted his lawyers about getting a DNA test which the State Bureau Investigation didn’t have the ability to perform so a private lab had to do it. However, the DNA test did get done and it showed that Cotton was not a match. The DNA found in the second victim rape kit matched Bobby Poole. Poole later than confessed to both crimes that took place. Ronald Cotton was then finally brought into the court room and all the charges against him were dropped after eleven years of being locked

Tom Robinson’s trial was a fictional trial that took place in the 1930s, in Maycomb, Alabama. He was accused of rape by

The Leslie Faber rape took place in the Scherzer’s basementon the afternoon of March 1, 1989. During the trial the defence attorneys did everything they could to try

In Missouri during 1993, Christopher Simmons, a 17-year old, committed capital murder after he instigated two other juveniles (Benjamin and Tessmer) to conspire to kidnap and murder an innocent woman named Shirley Crook. It was never completely determined why exactly Simmons wished to murder Crook, however, he did later admit that Crook was involved in a previous car accident with Simmons. At approximately 2 a.m. on the night of the murder, Simmons and his two friends met up to break into the home of Crook, but Tessmer left before Simmons and Benjamin decided to go through with the heinous crime. Simmons and Benjamin broke into the home of Crook, entered her room, covered her eyes and mouth using duct tape, and bound her hands together. The

April 6, 1931, the trials for the Scottsboro boys begin(Uschan 16). The boys were represented by Milo C. Moody and Stephen Roddy who were only given twelve days to prepare for the trials. Stephen was and unpaid, unprepared real estate attorney, and Milo was a forgetful seventy year old local attorney who hadn’t tried a case in a long time (“San Marcos” line 13). The trails were completely unorganized and false information was stated throughout the whole thing. The cross examination of Victoria Price lasted minutes and the defense offered very little information to the judge. Six out of the nine boys ended up denying the rape while 3 admitted to it. Even though the three men didn’t rape the women, because of beatings and threats, they admitted to the gang rape. By the time the trail had ended 8 out of the 9 boys were convicted and sentenced to death. Since one of the Scottsboro boys was only thirteen, he was considered too young to be tried as an adult (“UMKC” par. 6-7).

On June first, a single black man named Joe James jumped off a freight train entering springfield, and began a streak of partying. He had been arrested soon after, and was sentenced for 50 days in the jail, but was allowed to run errands while on parole. WHile on parole on June 3rd, he left and didn’t come back. While drunk, he had entered Clergy Ballard’s house the night before, and had slashed the neck of Clergy after attempting to sexually assault his daughter. The next day, after waking up on a park bench, multiple of Clergy’s relatives and neighbors ganged up on James and beat him senseless until police arrived to arrest James. They hauled him off to the town jail until shipped off to a court case.

As the young men stood before an all white jury, six of them (Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, and Eugene Williams) refused to commit to a crime they didn't commit, while the other three admitted they did because of possible beatings other locals threatened to do. One of the most memorable parts of the trial was when Clarence Norris blatantly lied, saying ‘“They all raped her, every one of them.’” A local journalist later called the case “‘so conclusive as to be almost perfect.’” However, it was all a lie

They endured many trials almost all of which had prejudice juries. This is the story of nine young men who had little, and then had everything taken away from them. On March 24, 1931, nine black youths were accused of raping two white girls; Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. There was only one of them who was not in his teens, Charlie Weems.

Anker and Goodman’s 2001 documentary talks about how Ruby Price, “grew up in a poor part of Huntsville, Alabama and worked in local cotton mills when there was work”. Given the historical background we know that many African American during this time period lived in poverty. While it is not discussed directly from a viewer’s interpretation monetary gain may have very well been motive for Ruby Bates and Victoria Price to accuse the nine African American boys of raping them. On top of Bates and Price having little to no money the boys of Scottsboro did not have the means to pay for a good defense

In which the lives of three teenage boys were destroyed. The day Baldwin, Echols and Misskelley were convicted of the murder for three younger boys, the Arkansas Supreme Court issued that all of them were “to serve life in prison, except for Echols, who was sentenced to death.” (Egan n.pg.) The unimaginable idea that they were to be kept in jail for the rest of their life must have degraded them emotionally, mentally and physically. Over the next couple of years multiple individuals who believed Baldwin, Echols and Misskelley did not commit the crime, would work vigorously to prove their innocence. In a particular incident the discovery of a piece of hair was found on the ropes that bound the young boy’s feet together. After much testing it was said to “possibly belong to Terry Hobbs” (Egan n.pg.) the stepfather of one of the three boys who was murdered. Surprisingly even after this vital piece of evidence was found, the court dismissed it as non important. Which if only looked into at the time of the trial could have spared the three teenage boys from a longer time of their lives spent in

Three teens from Arkansas were brought in as suspects on a recent murder of three local children named, Chris Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore. The teenagers who had been suspect were also locals, and one in particular had been profiled a number of times by the police for being odd. The teen, Damien Echols a high school dropout, had a record is psychiatric problems, with major depression. Echols was different than his fellow cohorts, he dressed primarily in black, had long dark hair, and to the police looked like a troublemaker. The troubled teen also was in a Wiccest, or male witches, group. He was said to partake in Wiccest ceremonies and other troubling events. The two other accused boys were Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, who like Echols were simply different. Misskelley was seventeen years old with mild mental retardation, who reportedly had an IQ of just sixty eight. Misskelley was interrogated by the police for several hours straight and eventually being forced to admit to a crime that he nor his companions committed. Misskelley would have a separate trial than the other two teens and would be found guilty and sentenced to eighteen years of jail time. Echols and Baldwin would also be found guilty, Baldwin sentenced to the same amount of time as Misskelley, but Echols, unfortunately, was condemned to

This article is from a newspaper and it describes a court case which took place in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1960. An 18-year-old African American girl who was sitting with her boyfriend in a parked car on a rural road was dragged from her car, threatened with a knife, and then raped by two white brothers, Bud (26) and Bobby (23) Alverson, of Hazel Green, AL. The brothers were convicted of the crime by a circuit court after two hours of deliberation and were sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Rape is considered a very serious topic and is not taken lightly, however it was different in this case. It was taken as a joke and it was laughed about rather than frowned upon. Justice was snatched away because of this vulgar “joke”. The Scottsboro Boys Trial, that took place in Alabama from 1931 to 1937, revealed the consequences of false accusations, explained the loss of innocence, and established the miscarriage of justice.

In 1931, nine African American boys were accused of raping two white women. The boy’s ages ranged from 12-20 years old. The names of the black boys were Roy Wright 12, Eugene Williams 13, Charlie Weems 16, Ozie Powell 16, Willie Roberson 16, Olen Montgomery 17, Haywood Patterson 18, Andy Wright 19, and Clarence Norris 19. The trial is notoriously known as The Scottsboro Boys Trial. While the trial is considered a key trial in America’s criminal justice system, it showed the injustice in the Jim Crow south legal system.

Tom Robinson is a African-American that has a wife and 3 kids. Tom Robinson worked at a cotton plant for Mr.link Deas. On the way to work Tom has to walk by the Edwells house. In the book it explains how the Edwells are at the bottom of the social class rank and live in trash. Mayella Edwell, one of many, is the daughter of Bod Edwell, her mother died a few years back. Bob Edwell works for the government. Mayella always had Tom do some type of work for her every time he walks by and he never took anything in return. Mayella Edwell accused Tom Robinson of rape. Back in the 1960s when a white women accused a black man of rape it was automatically true. As the story goes on, it's the first day of trail. We find out that a doctor was never called or Mayella never went to a doctor. There is no medical evidence that a rape had occurred. Mayella's right eye was blackened , she had bruises on her right side only and there was choke marks all the way around her neck. This shows that Mayella’s attack was done by somebody who left hand was dominant. Mayella says she was sitting on her porch and Tom was walking home from work. She had asked Tom to do some work for her. When she went inside the house to get a nickle for Tom, he was right behind her. He knocked her down and then took advantage of her. She was yelling and her father heard her. He ran in just as Tom was running out. During Mayella’s testimony, she was