Legal News for Fri 7/24 - SCOTUS Lawyer to be Sentenced, DOJ Drops NYTimes Subpoenas, Paramount Merger Frozen
This Day in Legal History: The Scottsboro Case
On July 24, 1937, the state of Alabama dropped all charges against four of the nine young Black men known to history as the Scottsboro Boys—a small, belated measure of relief in one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American legal history, and a case that helped reshape constitutional criminal procedure. The nine, ranging in age from approximately 13 to 20, had been arrested after riding a freight train through Alabama in 1931 and falsely accused of raping two white women. Within two weeks, in a series of rushed trials before…
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