How Did Tom Robinson Get A Fair Trial

To Kill a Mockingbird Many people have been ridiculed because of their skin color. They have been given unfair trials throughout American history. Tom Robinson was accused of raping and beating a white woman. Everyone knew that she was lying, but the jury still came to the conclusion that Mr. Robinson was guilty because he was African American. The murder of Emmett Till was a demonstration that whites who committed the worst crime possible would be given a lenient trial because the victim was an African American. The trial of “The Scottsboro boys” was the worst. Everyone knew that the two girls were lying and one of them even confessed that she lied on the stand but the jury still found the defendants guilty. It is not just African Americans

This trial happened in the 1930s. The boys were traveling by train to Memphis looking for jobs. While on the train a brawl erupted between a gang of whites and a gang of blacks. The blacks were able to force the gang of whites off the train. Which only left the gang of blacks and four whites. The four whites contained two male and two female. The white gang had gone to the train station and told the trainmaster that blacks had attacked them. They gathered people and went to the train's next stop to talk with the blacks. While there two white girls, known as Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, told the people who had gathered that they were gang raped by the blacks. The boys were sent to jail. This trial was extremely unfair because the only people that were actually called to the stand were the two girls. When the two girls were on the stand they were incoherent most of the time and their statements did not match. Yet, the all-white jury gave each of the boys a death sentence, except for the twelve-year-old, Roy Wright. Roy was given a mistrial because of his age. Six of the boys denied raping or ever seeing the two girls. The other three said that they had seen it because they were threatened to say so. Charges were dropped against Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams only thirteen at the time, and Roy Wright only twelve at the time. The court decided that Roberson and Montgomery were

Alejandro Rodriguez an immigrant from Mexico was detained for more than three years without receiving a bond hearing. Rodriguez in his lawsuit asked for a hearing to determine if his detention was justified. A district court in California said that they did not have jurisdiction to grant a class action. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) appealed the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The U.S. Court of Appeals then ruled that the government had clear jurisdiction to allow the lawsuit to be filed as a class action. The U.S. Court of Appeals agreed that a class action would provide a way for immigrant detainees to be represented. In 2015, a federal court ruled that immigrants in prolonged detention be given a bond hearing. The Rodriguez v. Robbins case helped thousands of immigration detainees across the Ninth