Powell v alabama the scottsboro boys and american justice historic supreme court cases horne gerald isbn 9780531113141 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Alabama 287 us 45 1932 was a landmark united states supreme court decision in which the court reversed the convictions of nine young black men for allegedly raping two white women on a freight train near scottsboro alabama. The right to an effective defense is the subject of this title in the historic supreme court cases series horne roots the issue in the case of the scottsboro boys who were falsely accused convicted and sentenced to die for the rape of two white women in alabama in 1931 he shows how their appeals to the supreme court eventually established the important principle of the right to effective . Powell v alabama the scottsboro boys and american justice historic supreme court cases by gerald horne 1997 04 03 gerald horne isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The alabama supreme court in powell v alabama ruled 6 1 that the trial was fair this ruling was ultimately appealed to the united states supreme court the united states supreme court in powell v alabama reversed and remanded the decisions of the alabama supreme court stating that due process had been violated