You have missed the point there. Each one of the "trials" where a guilty verdict was handed down, the law was ignored. They never should have gone to trial had the law been obeyed in the first place.
I argued this case in college and was able to find so many pieces of evidence that the law had been ignored, that testimony that exhonerated the men had been thrown out, that Price herself had threatened witnesses against testifying.
Our laws are the way they are to protect the innocent. No double jeapoardy once found innocent, O.J. Simpson not withstanding.
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Christ_Whore
12 years ago
No, I got the point. I just find it unsettling that the verdict was overturned by the presiding judge 3 seperate times because the verdict he wanted was not reached.
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mdavisinspirations
9 years ago
Technically there were 4 trials. After 3 they got guilty verdicts. The Judge did not have a say in the verdicts. The Jurers did. After the last trial (3rd) the judge felt that something had gone horribly wrong and did the RIGHT thing to throw that last verdict out. And good thing he was replaced even the boys got another guilty verdict it was over time that the state of prejudice Alabama has seen the errors of their unfair ways. They never had a chance with an all white prejudice jury anyways. Just too bad the boys spent so much time in prison for doing NOTHING!!
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