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TKAM vs Scottsboro Trial

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Piper Howell

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TKAM VS THE SCOTTSBORO TRIAL

Scottsboro Trial (The begining)

  • March 25, 1931: Nine black male youths are arrested for assault and rape of two white women.
  • March 30, 1931: A grand jury indicts all nine "Scottsboro boys".

SCOTTSBORO TRIAL

  • April 6th-9th, 1931: 8 of the boys are convicted and secencted to death.
  • January 1932: The NAACP withdraws the case and one of the victims denies being raped.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboronine-black-youth-arrested-for-assault/

1932-1937

  • May 27, 1932: The United States Supreme court agrees to hear the case.
  • March 27, 1933: Haywood Patterson's second trial begins

1932-1937

  • April 9, 1933: Haywood is found guilty and secentenced to the electric chair
  • January 23, 1936: Patterson is retried again and secentenced to 75 years in prison
  • July 24 1937: Rape charges are dropped against the last four defendants in the case.

TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD (The trial)

  • A poor black man (Tom Robinson) is accused of rape by a white female, in a small racist town in the 1930s
  • Atticus Finch (white male) is appointed to defend Tom Robinson in his trial against Mayella Ewell

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

  • Tom Robinson is convicted of rape by an all white male jury dispite Atticus's convincing evidence
  • Tom Robinson is scenctenced to life in prison for the rape of Mayella Ewell
  • Tom tried to escape and is shot and killed by the guards

Similarties

  • Both black suspects
  • Set during the 1930's
  • Both had one handi capped suspect
  • Both defendants had white lawyers
  • Both juries were all white males

Similarties

  • Both defendants were wrongly convicted
  • The suspects were found guilty based off of racism
  • One suspect escaped jail in both cases
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