Nick Crusco 10/09/2013 Mr. Cooper Criminal Justice Powell v Alabama A group of African-American youths were on a freight train through Alabama. They got into a fight with some white youths‚ throwing the white boys from the train. A message was sent‚ requesting all blacks be removed from the train. Two white girls on the train testified that they had been raped by six different youths in turn. The youths were taken into custody. The community was very hostile‚ as a mob met the youths. The trial
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caps and overalls. The deputy sheriff tied the black youths together and started questioning them. All of them were from other states. Five of them were from Georgia. Twenty-year-old Charlie Weems was the oldest. Clarence Norris was nineteen. Ozie Powell was sixteen. Olin Montgomery‚ seventeen‚ was blind in one eye and had only 10 percent of his vision in the other eye. Willie Roberson‚ seventeen‚ suffered from the sexually-transmitted diseases syphilis and gonorrhea‚ which made him walk with a cane
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Seaver Williams On March 25‚ 1931‚ on a train going through Alabama‚ a fight between nine young African Americans and seven young white men took place. Powell and his African American friends ended up throwing all but one of the white men off the train. There were also two white women on the train who claimed they were sexually assaulted. They were escorted to jail when they arrived at Scottsboro. They were put on trial on March 31 for the rape of the two white women and were found guilty and sentenced
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POWELL v ALABAMA United States Supreme Court 287 U.S. 45 (1932) FACTS: Nine young black boys riding in an open train car were involved in a fight. When the fight ceased‚ two white women claimed the black boys raped them. Once the boys got off the train in Scottsboro‚ Alabama‚ police picked them up and placed them in jail. The men appeared in court‚ frightened‚ and unrepresented. The defendants were charged with a capital offence and therefore had the right for counsel to be appointed to them
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Citation: Powell V U.S. No. 405‚ Supreme Court of the United States‚ 1968‚ 392 U.S. 514‚ 88 S. Ct. 2145 L. Ed 2d 1254‚ 1968 U.S. 1140. Facts: Leroy Powell was arrested December‚ 1966 for public intoxication‚ which is in violation of Texas state law. Powell was found guilty and fined. He appealed and at trial Powell argued that he was not at fault for his behavior due to chronic alcoholism‚ which is a disease. He further argued that punishing him for his behavior was cruel and unusual behavior‚ a
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that the Scottsboro boys were actually innocent‚ and they made attempts to compete with the Communist party to make the case their own‚ however‚ they were too late because the CPUSA had claimed the case and the mothers of Haywood Patterson and Ozie Powell had placed their trust in them to bring freedom to the Scottsboro
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Bates‚ two white women who also were hitching a ride on the train looking for work. In the hope of avoiding vagrancy and morality charges‚ the women falsely accused the nine young black men—Olen Montgomery‚ Clarence Norris‚ Haywood Patterson‚ Ozzie Powell‚ Willie Roberson‚ Charlie Weems‚ Eugene Williams‚ and brothers Andy and Roy Wright—of rape. The accused were arrested and transported to Scottsboro‚ the Jackson County seat‚ to await trial. Over the next seven years‚ as the case made its way through
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Weems was paroled in 1943‚ while Powell and Norris were paroled in 1946. The last to be parolled was Wright who was allowed to leave in June of 1950. The last one Patterson managed to escape in 1948 and flee managed to flee to Michigan where he was protected by the governor of Michigan
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Work Cited Page Aretha‚ David. The Civil Rights Movement; The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys. North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds‚ 2008. Uschan‚ Michael V. Landmark Events in American History; The Scottsboro Case. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library‚ 2004. Linder‚ Douglas O. Famous American Trials. 1999. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_hrrep.html. Johnson‚ Claudia D. Scottsboro Trial. 1994. The Greenwood Publishing‚ Inc. http:// library.thinkquest
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around gather outside Courthouse Square. April 7th-9th‚ Victora Price testifies that six of the boys had raped her‚ and six of the boys raped Ruby Bates. Eight of black boys‚ Clarence Norris‚ Charlie Weems‚ Haywood Patterson‚ Olen Montgomery‚ Ozie Powell‚ Willie Roberson‚ Eugene Williams and Andy Wright were tried‚ convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution. Roy Wright‚ one of the youngest boys‚ was hung by jury. The executions of the eight defendants were stayed and pending their appeal to
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