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Sacco And Vanzetti Case Study

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Sacco and Vanzetti When Sacco and Vanzetti were being interrogated, they were lied about their activities. Sacco and Vanzetti demand that they will not know Mike Boba or been seen at the garage, where Boba car was at. There was suspicious of them knowing about Mike Boba and where his car was. While being in custody, the District Attorney Fredrick Katzmann and Chief Stewart, did not mention why the men were being still stuck in custody. Chief Stewart did blast them about the robbery, and also the political beliefs and associates. When the investigation would dwindle down, the case came close to collapsing with the lack of evidence not brought in court. As the trial approaches, the men were tried separately, Katzmann prosecuted Vanzetti for the December Bridgewater holdup, then charge the both men with the Braintree murders that happened in April. As the case was coming into the light, the district attorney preceded the weaker case against Vanzetti and brought it to Judge Tuayer. Vanzetti ended up convicted and the judge gave a harsh sentence of 12-15 years to …show more content…

This trial was very special, so the judge had appointed to hear the case. As the case is coming to a beginning, D.A. Katzmann made his case around three main key evidence: (1) eyewitness of Saco and Vanzetti at the scene. (2) Expert ballistics testimony establishing Sacco’s gun as the weapon that he fired the fatal shot at Berardelli and Vanzetti gun as the one taken from the robbery. (3) The defendant evasive behavior both before and after arrest was made and the evidence of what is legally termed as “consciousness of deep guilt”. After trying to get the hard evidence against them, the district attorney decided to use another strategy and it was calling them anarchist and bringing politics into it, but the anarchist did not seem to holdup in the court of

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