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Due Process of Law in Alabama
Hammond Jr., John Henry | December 20, 1933 issue

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Alabama has been anything but shrewd. After Judge's reversal of the Decatur, Alabama, jury's verdict of guilty in last spring's Scottsboro trial, the wise thing to do would have been to nolle-pros the whole case. In this way the entire blame would have rested on the courageous judge; Tom Knight, the Attorney-General, could have pointed to his success at having obtained a conviction; Alabama might have emerged as the great liberal Southern State; and Morgan County, Alabama, could have escaped the tremendous cost of a new trial. But Alabama felt that it was necessary to show the world that alien influences could do nothing to affect its justice.

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ACTIONS & defenses -- United States; VERDICTS; JUDGES -- United States; KNIGHT, Tom; JUSTICE; ALABAMA; UNITED States
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