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==There is no crime that has produced as may trials as the Scottsboro Boys' case let alone one that never occured. The alleged crime took place on a freight train near Paint Rock, Alabama; two women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accused nine young black men including Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Andy and Roy Wright and Eugene Williams ages from 13-21 of rape. The nine men were arrested on March 25, 1931, tied together wih plow line, and convicted on the basis of shallow evidence, all were senticed to death but Roy. ==

==Samuel ** Leibowitz defended the nine young men during the trials. He graduated from __Cornell Law School__ in 1915. He had a winning record of 77 out of 78 on capital murder defendants. **==

==Victoria Price was a 21 year old spinner making $1.20 a day, and she was the oldest of the two women and was not very well educated. Leibowtiz tired to use a thirty-four-foot long model train. That of which was a replica of the train of the alleged raping. Price refused to admit that it resembled the train, she said "That much smaller...Thats just a toy!" ==

== **Ruby Bates was like Victoria Price, a poor Huntsville millworker. Durring the first trial Bates was not as effective as Victoria Price. Later Bates became a surprise witness for the defense in the second Haywood Patterson Trial. She clamed that she was encouraged by Victoria Price to make a false statement to save themselves from getting possible charges for crossing the state lines. ** ==

== **Imagine if you were put on trial for a crime you didn't commit and got sentenced to death, this is what happened to the nine boys in the Scottsboro trials. In 1931 rape was punishable by death especially if victims were white and the rapist were black. Most crimes would have been lynching (hanging someone who is suspected of a crime) but the nine boys were held in three unfair trials where the verdict was guilty before the trial even began. ** ==

==**In the first trial on April 7 1931 the nine young men were the defended by Milo Moody, Steve Roddy who didn't attempt to win. All but one Leroy Wright of the nine boys wasn't sentenced to death. On the second trial this time represented by Samuel Lebibowitz. Price testifies again but revealing differences from her testimony in the first trial. Ruby Bates takes back her early testimony saying she was not raped. Judge Hortons grants a new trial because he believed prices evidence must be proved. But the case was passed to a new judge William Callahan who convicted Haywood Paterson and Clarence Norris of rape and sentenced them to death because he believed that proof wasn't necessary for conviction.** ==

**In the end the Scottsboro boys were falsely accused and convicted of a crime they didn't do.**
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