The Later
Scottsboro
Boys Trials (1933 - 1937)
Judge William Callahan After Judge Horton set aside Haywood Patterson's death sentence and guilty verdict in June, 1933, prosecutors applied pressure to have the Scottsboro cases transferred to another judge. Their efforts were successful, and the next round of trials began in late 1933 in the Decatur courtroom of Judge William Callahan. Trials of Haywood Patterson (third) and Clarence Norris (second), Nov.-Dec., 1933 Excerpt from
the testimony of Victoria Price in the Norris trial Newspaper accounts of the trials Decision of U. S. Supreme Court reversing the convictions Trial of Haywood Patterson (fourth), January, 1936 Newspaper accounts of the trial Decision of Alabama Supreme Court affirming conviction Trials of Clarence Norris (third), Andy Wright (second), and Charles Weems (second), July, 1937 Newspaper accounts of the trial
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