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Date of Offence
On this day, the Scottsboro 9 alegedly engage in a fight with 7 white men and rape two white women. The police then stop the train, arrest the boys, and pressed charges. -
Grand Jury
The Grand Jury Indicts, decides that there is enough physical evidence to go to trail, the Scottsboro 9 of all the carges they have aginst them. -
Trials Begin
Judge A. E. Hawkins begins to rule over the orginal trials of all 9 of the boys. -
Convicted
All of the boys except for Roy Wright, are convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. This is while Roy Wright's trial ends in mistrial due to descreption of the jury over the sentenceing. -
Stay of Excution
The boys gain a stay of execution since their trial is to be heard by the Alabama Supreme Court. -
Shocking Evidence
Miss Ruby Bates tells Earl Streetman in a letter that she infact was not raped by the Scottsboro 9. -
Alabama Supreme Court
By a vote of 6-1, the court voted to affirm the convictions of seven of the boys. Eugene Williams' coviction was reversed since he was a minor at the time of the incident. -
United States Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court Opinion By a vote of 6-2, The Supreme Court ruled to reverse the convictions of all the boys. This was because they where denied adquate assistance of concul in their cases. This right is garuented by the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. -
New Lawyer
Samuel S. Leibowitz, a powerfull New York Lawyer, is appointed to the case by the International Labor Defence Union to the case. -
New Trial
Haywood Patterson's second trial begins in Decatur, Alabama before judge James Horton. -
Case Posponed
Judge Horton postpones Haywood Patterson's trial since he belives that the trial could not be fair in the current location. -
New Judge (Again)
All of the Scottsboro trials are moved from Judge James Horton's court room to Judge William Callahan's court. -
Alabama Supreme Court
The Court votes to uphold the convictions of Haywood and Noris. -
Going back to Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court decides that they will reveiw the current Scottsboro boys convictions. -
Supreme Court Hearing take 2
Supreme Court Opinion The Supreme Court votes to overturn the convictions of Norris and Patterson. This is because of the fact that there was not any African Americans on the Jurys for the trials.
