The Salem Witch Trials During the years 1692‚ fear of devil worshipping and witch craft swept through the city of Salem‚ Massachusetts. More than 200 men‚ women and children were accused of witch craft. Of those 200‚ 20 people were executed. They were taken down to Gallows Hill where each was hanged for their crime. The trials went on for about a year; more and more people came forth with accusations of others who they thought were practicing witch craft or being possessed by the devil.
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reader’s opinion. Geoffrey Robertson in The Justice Game crafts many textual elements in his book about the legal system‚ the cases and about himself. Other composers also set their own agenda‚ and these biases cannot be overlooked.For example‚ in the Trials of Oz Robertson exercises supreme authority to decide who is guilty or innocent. He uses language to describe the defendants as “honest young men” and to characterise Oz as a “harmless coffee-table magazine for the revolution that would never happen”
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The Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. On March 25‚ 1931‚ several people were on a train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis‚ Tennessee. Several white boys jumped off the train and reported to the sheriff they had been attacked by a group of black boys. The sheriff stopped the train and searched it. In Paint Rock‚ Alabama
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favor of executing these officers without granting them a full or fair trial‚ which was also called summary justice. On the contrary‚ the United States proposed military tribunal. In the end‚ military commission won. A series of trials‚ called the Nuremberg Trials‚ were then held where various Nazi officials were tried for their war crimes. These trials were treated carefully and diplomatically as they
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Donald Marshall Jr. Facts Of Donald Marshall Jr. Shortly before Midnight on May 28‚ 1971‚in Sydney Nova Scotia Donald Marshall‚ Jr.‚ a 17-year-old Micmac‚ and Sandy Seale‚ a 17-year-old Black‚ met by chance and were walking through Wentworth Park in Sydney when they met two other men‚ Roy Ebsary‚ 59‚ a former ship ’s cook‚ and James (Jimmy) MacNeil‚ 25‚ an unemployed laborer. Marshall and Scale had an altercation with Ebsary and MacNeil. Which triggered a deadly over reaction in the drunken
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individuals and institutions face moral tests. Characters such as John and Elizabeth Proctor‚ along with Giles Corey‚ faced such tests. During the time of the trials‚ Giles Corey was called by the court to release names of those suspected of witchcraft. Rather than reveal the names of the people significantly he was pressed to death and took the names of the people to his grave. As the claims of witchcraft troubled the town‚ John had hopes of ending the problem by revealing Abigail’s true intentions
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should be interpreted literally‚ and saw the Darwin theory of evolution as a threat to Christianity. One way the fundamentalists could affect how people saw the theory of evolution was by attacking the education system in Tennessee. A former teacher‚ John Butler‚ wrote a bill outlawing the teaching of any theory of evolution contrary to the Bible. Butler felt teaching of evolution threatened the family and to cast doubt on the Bible was to undermine the foundations of the State. This bill was passed
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political and military leaders of Nazi Germany‚ indicted for aggressive war‚ war crimes‚ and crimes against humanity. Of the twenty-four twenty-one were taken into custody and put on trial; these were known as the Nuremberg Trials. These trials started on November 20th 1945 and were the first ever war crime tribunal. The Trials were held by the Allied forces of World War II and were held in the city of Nuremberg in Bavaria Germany out of the Palace of Justice. Accusations placed against them were for their
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Jeany Sulpha Eng 101 CW 1 Gail Lighthipe 06 April 2009 The Amistad Trial The Amistad Trial‚ also known as United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad‚ was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of slaves on board the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839 (Jones). The Amistad Case is part of The Freedom Trial consisting of four cities Farmington‚ Mystic‚ New Haven‚ and Hartford. In 1839‚ fifty-three Mendi Africans
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in a row the Saint Peter Mock Trial team has made it to state. They would never have been able to accomplish this without the help of the amazing coaches and the dedication of the students. The members of that team graduated last year and the younger kids have to step up and take their place. The team only has three coaches and around thirty members this year‚ three times more members than the team had three years ago. Only seven of these members have been in mock trial in previous years. Every year
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