Mychal Bell, one of the Black students known as the Jena 6, is back in jail. Bell, was ordered to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge determined he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions.
According to CNN, the decision to send Bell to the juvenile facility came at the [...]
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After spending almost 10 months behind bars, Mychal Bell is finally free after a local judge set the bail for $45,000. This came hours after a LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters told a nationally televised press conference, he would no longer seek an adult trial for the Mychal. Walters had said he would [...]
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Acting on an emergency defense appeal, Louisiana’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the aggravated second-degree battery conviction of Mychal Bell, 17, ruling that the youth had been tried improperly as an adult. Mychal Bell, the first of the six black students to stand before a judge, was tried as an adult, convicted of [...]
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Americans are proud that we are people with different backgrounds, faiths, viewpoints, and personal characteristics. However, there is a recent rise in hate crimes that contradicts the American identity as a caring, diverse and inclusive society. Since 9/11, an increasingly strident message of xenophobia has seeped into both fringe and mainstream political movements. A new [...]
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One of the problems being a blogger during a time when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell and democracy here in the US is crumbing faster right before our very eyes, it becomes very difficult exposing everything that that is going on, such as completing a post on the situation down in [...]
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