[Peace] Free the Jena 6!

[Brian Dolinar]

Don't forget - tonight Terry Davis at the Urban League 7pm.
Get the latest from Ms. Davis, an investigator on Mychal Bell's case.

BD

* "Jena 6" Teen Mychal Bell Sent Back to Prison*
In Jena, Louisiana, the 'Jena 6' teen Mychal Bell has been sent back to
jail. The seventeen-year old Bell has already served ten months in prison
for a schoolyard fight in which Bell and five others beat up a white
student. The fight occurred after white students hung three nooses from a
tree where the black students had sat. An all-white jury convicted Bell of
aggravated second-degree battery. Bell was allowed free on bail just two
weeks ago after an appeals court found he had been improperly tried as an
adult. But on Thursday, the same judge who wrongly tried Bell -- District
Judge J.P. Mauffrey -- sentenced him to eighteen months in prison on charges
pending from another case before the fight occured. Bell was sentenced on
two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of
property. Judge Mauffrey also ordered Bell's parents to pay all court and
witness costs. Defense attorneys had previously tried to force Mauffrey to
recuse himself from Bell's case.

-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com
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