Habeas Writ – Lingering 'Round the Dinner Table

In 1933 Alabama, nine black males, aged 12 to 21, were accused of raping two white female teenagers. Twelve days after their arrest, the boys were brought into an Alabama court and presented with their “lawyers”: one, a forgetful, elderly man of seventy, hadn’t tried a case in decades; the other, an unpaid real-estate lawyerContinue reading “Habeas Corpus: Explained”