DId you know one of the Jena 6 was already charged tried and convicted of attempted murder as an adult?

Question

He was the only one tried and convicted so far, but the conviction was overturned on appeal, because the charge was too harsh. Because of this, we know about the Jena 6...we didn;t find out when the kids hung the nooses, we didn;t find out when the kid was beaten. We found out when it was revealed that the town charged and convicted a child of a harsher crime than was committed. I just keep hearing people say 'there is a difference between tried and convicted'. Seems like there is very little knowledge on this topic, but quite a few misguided opinions...

Answer 1

I had heard it was overturned.

Regardless, the kid who was assaulted should have his camera out and be recording all of these statements. A civil lawsuit (for defamation) naming as many people who are protesting FOR these young thugs would get him a pretty penny and perhaps go a long way in setting the record straight.

Answer 2

The original charges were attempted murder as an adult, for the fight the 16 year old was involved in outside the High School Gymnasium, which would have brought a 20 year prison sentence.

After the outcry, charges were reduced to aggravated battery. Those charges have been dismissed by a higher court. The Jena prosecutor and judge have refused to release him and are refiling charges in juvenile court...despite the higher court demanding to know why he had not been freed from jail.

""Bell, who was 16 at the time of the beating, had been convicted of aggravated battery, which could have sent him to prison for 15 years.""

Answer 3

Jena Six refers to a group of six black teenagers who have been arrested and charged with crimes related to their alleged involvement in the assault of a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, on December 4, 2006. The incident is one of many racially charged events that have occurred in the town since the hanging of nooses on the "white tree" on the Jena High School campus, which some have called a prank and others say recalls the history of lynching. Critics of how the case was handled, including civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have said that the arrests and subsequent charges were racially motivated. Some residents of the town - both white and black - have expressed the view that the current problem is more the fault of outsiders using racial politics to influence the justice system. Additionally, U.S. Attorney Donald Washington has expressed the opinion that although discipline was mishandled by the school, he has found no reason to believe that there was unfair judicial action.

On December 4, 2006, Jena High School student Justin Barker, age 17, was assaulted by other Jena High students.Barker was then knocked to the ground after being hit in the back of his head. From there, according to some witnesses, a group of black students followed suit by repeatedly kicking him. Barker, who was left unconscious after the attack, was examined by a doctor at the local hospital. In the meantime, the six students accused of the attack, eventually dubbed the "Jena Six", were arrested.

Five of the students — Robert Bailey, Jr., Mychal Bell, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, and Theo Shaw — were initially charged with assault, though the sixth — Jesse Ray Beard — was charged as a juvenile because he was 14 at the time. However, District Attorney Walters increased the assault charges to attempted second-degree murder, provoking protests from black residents that the charges, which could result in the defendants being imprisoned past age 50, were disproportionate to the crime.

Mychal Bell, a juvenile, had been previously convicted of four violent crimes. Bell served probation for a battery that occurred December 25, 2005, and he was subsequently convicted of another battery charge and two charges of criminal damage to property. On June 26, 2007, the first day of trial for defendant Mychal Bell, Walters agreed to reduce the charges for Bell to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery.
Following the trial, Bell's new defense attorneys, Louis Scott and Carol Powell-Lexing, requested that a new trial on the grounds that Bell should not have been tried as an adult and that the trial should have been held in another parish. A request to lower Mychal Bell's $90,000 bond was denied on August 24, 2007, due to his juvenile record.
On September 4, 2007, a judge dismissed the conspiracy charge but let the battery conviction stand, though he agreed that Bell should have been tried as a juvenile. On September 14, 2007, Louisiana's Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Bell's battery conviction ruling that he shouldn't have been tried as an adult. Louis Scott, Bell's attorney, has indicated that the charges are dropped for now, but also noted that the situation may change depending on what path the prosecution takes. The La Salle Parish district attorney, J. Reed Walters, has said that he will appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Following an order by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, a hearing was held on September 21, 2007, to determine whether to set bond for Bell.

On September 4, 2007, charges against Carwin Jones and Theo Shaw were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy, as were those of Robert Bailey, Jr., on September 10.
Despite the overturning of Mychal Bell's conviction, the charges against the other four teenagers remained unaffected because they were over seventeen at the time of the incident, thus making them adults under Louisiana law.


-The Wik

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Wrong!

The assault conviction (not attempted murder) was overturned on appeal because a higher court determined that the youth should not have been tried as an adult.

Get your facts straight!

Answer 6

I don't think it was that inappropriate charges were filed that got his conviction overturned, but the fact that the court thought he should have been tried as a juvenile instead of an adult.

Answer 7

Where did you hear it at? Do you know all the facts r are you just assuming that the judge in Jena must also be the Grand Wizard of the KKK in Louisiana?

Answer 8

I'm still waiting for someone to weigh in on this and say:

"These six youths acted as gang members. We as parents don't want gang members attending our schools. We do not want gang members in our communities. These are NOT the poster children for racial injustice. They're bad guys, thugs. Lock 'em up."

Answer 9

He was not tried and convicted of attempted murder...he was convicted of felony assault.

Get your facts straight!!!!