Crime & Justice

How Leander Perez’s Vicious Racism Backfired and Saved Jury Trials

CIVIL RIGHTS
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The powerful Louisiana segregationist tried to imprison a Black teen without a jury trial for the “crime” of touching a white teen in 1966. The Supreme Court decided otherwise.

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