The felony conviction for Mychal Bell has been overturned.If you will remember,Mychal Bell is one of six young boys accused of beating a white student in the town of Jena 6.Judges in the case have recently ruled that Mychal should never have been tried as an adult.Mychal Bell,now 17, will now be tried as a juvenile. Bell who has been in jail since December of 2006 was the first of six young men who was convicted for a school yard fight.
The crisis is not over yet.This ruling still leaves in suspension what's going to happen to the other five. But the Jena 6 and their supporters are now on the offensive. So long as these kids were in the dark without representation, they were all going up the river. When the lights came on and the public pressure flooded in, it began to change everything.-Reverend Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson along with many other civil rights leaders planned on protesting this coming September 20Th,the day Mychal Bell was scheduled to be sentenced for up to 22 years. Although Bell's sentencing has been reversed, these civil rights leaders,as well as other denizens, plan on still rallying. No Justice,No Peace.
Read more about Mychal Bell's Overturned case: NyTImes
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