Answer:
the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of .......
Explanation:
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At the crime scene as soon as possible.
Answer: c. Represented progress in the cause of civil rights for African-Americans. It also
(d). reflected the racism that was prevalent in the South during the 1930s.
Explanation: In the Scottsboro case, Nine young black Americans ages 12 to 19 were charged with raping of two white women in a train near the small town of Scottsboro, Alabama.
The case was vital in the pursuit of civil rights and protection. The case also led to two landmark Supreme Court rulings that established important rights for criminal defendants and a fair hearing. The Supreme Court also reversed the judgement because the jury was only made of white people and there was no fair hearing of the case.
Their trials began and eight of the nine boy having been found guilty of the charges by a racist all-white juries were sentenced to death in the electric chair despite reasonable evidences that they were not quilty but innocent.
Another way that media coverage changes the way that judges and juries act in the legal system, is by giving them extra information into the case, or the clients behind the case. ... This means that from the moment a juror enters the courtroom, they're already biased in the way they make decisions regarding the case.
