The Trial Of Tom Robinson

How would you feel if you were shamed over things you couldn’t control? Based on only prejudice and stereotypes, some people hate others. Internalized intolerance can exist in everyone, mentally and legally. Court cases and trials can distinctly show this. To Kill A Mockingbird focuses around an unfair trial of Tom Robinson, who was wrongfully arraigned for raping a white woman. Although clear evidence pointed to Tom being innocent, he was still found guilty. Trials from the 1930s to today can compare to this. Many trials compare to Tom Robinson’s case on accounts of false accusations, discrimination, and unfair verdicts.

The judge and jury were blind, they looked only to the fact that Tom Robinson was black and not the fact that he was innocent, as Atticus Finch once said to his children "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” If Tom were to be named innocent, it would matter to everyone because it would display true justice in a world filled with race

Mayella back tracks and changes her story. "No, I don't recollect if he hit me. I... mean...yes! he hit me... he hit me!" (Foot 61) Bob is a drunk, therefore, his testimony cannot be believed. This shows that Mayella could have very well been set up, or told what to say, because she didn't know what to say in the first place, and it also shows that Bob could have been the perpetrator; because he is left-handed, his story is different and, he can't even be trusted with his own kids, so why trust his testimony? Their stories are different so their accusations cannot be trusted fully, another reason that the Tom Robinson case should have never come to

MILLERSBURG — Given the choice between prison and what would likely be a longer term of local incarceration, a Wooster man elected to serve his time in the county jail for leading deputies on a foot pursuit.

Did you ever wonder who the Scottsboro Boys were? What happen to Tom Robinson? How they could manage the racisms? How it felt to be arrested for something you didn’t do? In To Kill A Mocking Bird, Tom Robinson was arrested for a crime he never committed. In addition, that time period there were many racism incidents that occurred. In many ways, the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Robinson were alike, but also different. In To kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson’s Trial connects to the Scottsboro Trials because they both were accused of a crime against raping a white woman.

The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a view of life in the

Looking back at history we find that many trial cases have been unsolved, one in particular being the William Robinson case which took place in Salt Spring Island British Columbia in 1868. The death of William Robinson, a black man, resulted in the conviction and inherent execution of a Native man named Tshuanahusset (trial name “Tom”). The trial and thereafter death of “Tom” has caused much controversy in historical studies. With many different stories and recollections of said crime it was hard to say what actually happened during 1868 other than “Tom” being convicted as guilty of murder. I am here to prove that based on circumstantial evidence that the evidence that was provided against “Tom” does not beyond a reasonable doubt prove he was

During the Tom trial Tom was set up. He was never given a fair chance. The town people heard what happened and automatically assumed Tom was guilty because of his skin color. When Tom was accused they made sure the jury was all white. They believed Tom was guilty and they wanted to make sure everyone else did. "Tom Robinson's a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world's going to say 'We think you're guilty, but not very' on a charge like that. It was either a straight acquittal or nothing." (Atticus). Tom was guilty without having to go to

Racism played a big role in both Tom Robinson and the Scottsboro Boys trial. Racism led both cases to end with the same conclusion. Despite Atticus and Samuel tenaciously proving that the men were not guilty, for instance, Tom Robinson had a bad arm, which he could not have possibly hit Mayella with and many of the Scottsboro boys had their own physical weak points, the men were still wrongly convicted. Since the beginning when Tom Robinson and the Scottsboro boys first stepped foot into the courtroom their fates had already been sealed. They would be trialed unfairly because they were African American men being accused of raping white women "they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts when it’s a white man's word against a black mans,

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson, the black man falsely convicted of rape, had absolutely no chance of a fair trial. There is proof of this in the time period in which it occurred as well as evidence from the novel itself. Tom Robinson had an unfair trial because it was his word against the Ewell’s, a white, trashy family.

When Tom Robinson was convicted of a crime and sent to a trial that he had no chance at winning, he had lost any bit of innocence that he would ever get. In a time where the black community faced constant prejudice and discrimination, it was near impossible for any African American to be let off as innocent for any crime. And the sad part to it is that a lot of the blacks sent to trials and jail weren't even guilty of any crime at all, they were innocent. Tom Robinson was sent to a trial for the rape and beatings of Mayella Ewell. No one believed Tom on his innocence and when Atticus, his lawyer at the case, hands down proved his innocence, he was still going to be convicted as guilty. If it had come down to where they had to sit in front of another jury and do the same thing over and prove his innocence again, he still would probably be convicted as a guilty man. In the end Tom would be sentenced as guilty on not fact, or logic but by wrong prejudice ideas. With the broken judicial system and sideways beliefs of the time Tom Robinson lost any little hope he could ever wish for, he was completely stripped of his innocence.

Tom Robinson is innocent. From the fact that he cannot use his left hand, to the fact he was extremely upset and emotional at the trial, there are numerous things that speak Tom's innocence. Even though this period in American history was not the time of equality, Tom Robinson deserved a fair trial, which he did not get.

In the trail there are four testimonies given, by Mr. Heck Tate, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson. All of these testimonies have borderline truths but based on the way they all talked and presented themselves we have no idea what is true and what is not. In a court room now days and back then both sides of the account try to make you lean there way weather they full out lie or tell the whole truth. In the Tom Robinson case you get the feeling that Mayella is lying a lot. There were some truths in her testimony she did have Tom Robinson chop up a chipper but not on the day she said it occurred on. Ever thing else that she said seemed fake because she keep changing her mind. Mr. Gilman asks Mayella to describe what happened that night

In the summer of of 1935, Maycomb County was struck by the news of Tom Robinson raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell accused Tom and was shocked to find out that Atticus Finch would be the one to defend him. After the tria, the Jury would then decide the verdict.

One particular warm summer day, just a few hours after noon in the “tired old town” of Maycomb, the Finch household was unusually quiet(6. Lee). So quiet you can hear a pin drop1. Atticus had gone out, the children were nowhere to be seen, and even Calpurnia was away visiting family claiming they could live a day without her. That left ”Aunt” Alexandra Hancock in the house all alone.