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 | irishgit (138)
07/24/2007 | Not framed, so much as rail-roaded.
They may well have done the murder, but there is no doubt they were scape-goated for their anarchist beliefs. The behaviour of the the prosecution, the police and the trial judge, however, cast a lot of doubt on the veracity of the evidence.
The trial itself was one of the more shameful incidents in American jurisprudence.
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 | oscargamblesfro (77)
12/15/2006 | I really don't know what exactly happened with this- but I don't think in the 20's, which was sort of the last hurrah for MAINSTREAM nativist, anti-immigrant, and in this case anti- Italian sentiment that if I were in their shoes, whether they were anarchists or not, I'd expect a fair trial from someone like Judge Webster Thayer...Clearly, Thayer didn't pursue this case in an impartial manner.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (148)
12/14/2006 | Um, yeah. They have some good documentaries out on this that do a pretty good job of clearing them, plus I think their convictions have been overturned.
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 | Drummond (54)
12/14/2006 | Historians differ, although I think most lean towards guilt. However, it's hard to judge evidence decades later. And one thing is certain - the trial was a sham. Judge Webster Thayer himself commented that it really didn't matter if they were guilty of the murder itself, since their anarchist philosophy was in itself a crime.
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