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Release sought for teen in overturned conviction
05:01 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 18, 2007
JENA, La. – The attorney for a teenager whose conviction as an adult in a racially charged schoolyard beating was overturned last week has filed motions to have him released from jail, or at least moved to a juvenile facility, while the prosecutor decides if he will appeal to the state Supreme Court. Mychal Bell has been jailed since January, unable to post the $90,000 bond. On Friday, a state appeals court overturned his conviction, saying that he should not have been tried as an adult because he was 16 at the time of the fight. Also on Monday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he would ask federal officials to get Mr. Bell released. And, state police say they will assign troopers to be in Jena on Thursday to help police deal with the thousands expected to rally in support of Mr. Bell and other black students charged with attacking a white student.
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Anyone else find this completely and utterly sickening. This all started because a guy wanted to sit in the shade under a tree. I've been completely sickened following this story for awhile. It seems as if this little town is stuck in a time warp that froze them in the 60's.
Betcha dollars to doughnuts that if it had been six white kids beating up on a black kid, they would have been suspended, not arrested.
stuff like this is why people still give me "that look" when I say I am from Alabama or grew up in the South. SICKENING.
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