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A white man steps on a black man's hand and they start a fight. At the next stop two women say that they were raped by all 9 men.
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They were all convicted and sentenced to death, people from the NAACP and ILD didn't like that so their defendants executions were pending.
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Defendants were denied their right to counsel, Alabama violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
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His second trial begins, his judge is Judge James Horton, and his lawyer is Samuel Leibowitz.
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Ruby Bates shows up as a surprise witness after being gone for a while. She tells everyone that she didn't get raped and that her and Victoria were with their boyfriends the night before.
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Haywood Patterson is found guilty and is senteced to death by electric chair.
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He sets aside Haywood's execution and grants new trials for everyone.
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Haywood and Norris are sentenced to death and Roy and Eugene went to juvenile court.
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They were denied their rights to equal protection and the state went against the fourteenth amendment.
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Norris in senteced to death, Weems, Wright and Powell are senteced to many years in prison, charges against Montgomery, Roy, Williamson, and Roberson were dropped.
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Weems is released on parole.
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Norris and Wright were released on parole.
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Ozie Powell is let out on parole.
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Haywood Patterson escapes from prison.
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Haywood Patterson died of cancer.
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Roy Wright dies.
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Clarence Norris dies.
