Emmett Till Case Study
The case, of which I choose to present, is that of Emmet Till. In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till had gone on vacation from Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. He was shopping at a store owned which was owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant and someone said that Emmett Till whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman. At some point around August 28, Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His body was soon recovered, and an investigation was opened. It took less than four weeks for the case to go to trial; Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were accused of the murder of which an all-white, all male
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Emmett Till’s case was slightly considered by the Department of Justice, but due to the fact of the acquittal of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, the Department of Justice had a change of heart. Along with the Department of Justice’s change of heart, then came the notion that the federal government had no jurisdiction over the Emmet Till case. Furthermore, in understanding what the Constitution insights in terms of general police powers, the federal government has none. With Emmett Till being murdered in the state of Mississippi, there was no way that the Department of Justice could have initiated the prosecution of the killers. There is a federal statute that could have applied if Emmet Till was taken across the Mississippi state line, but due to the fact that this was not the case; no charges could be pressed in this particular …show more content…
Conspiracy has to do with two or more persons agreeing to perform a wrongful act and conspiracy was the only basis as to which had anything to do with a federal prosecution. There was a key legal issue in the case of Emmett Till and it had to do with the perceptions in terms of the rights firmly fastened by the United States and the Constitution itself. Even though the administration was robust in terms of protecting African Americans, prosecution in the case of Emmett Till a considerable amount of leg
Emmett Till’s case was slightly considered by the Department of Justice, but due to the fact of the acquittal of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, the Department of Justice had a change of heart. Along with the Department of Justice’s change of heart, then came the notion that the federal government had no jurisdiction over the Emmet Till case. Furthermore, in understanding what the Constitution insights in terms of general police powers, the federal government has none. With Emmett Till being murdered in the state of Mississippi, there was no way that the Department of Justice could have initiated the prosecution of the killers. There is a federal statute that could have applied if Emmet Till was taken across the Mississippi state line, but due to the fact that this was not the case; no charges could be pressed in this particular …show more content…
Conspiracy has to do with two or more persons agreeing to perform a wrongful act and conspiracy was the only basis as to which had anything to do with a federal prosecution. There was a key legal issue in the case of Emmett Till and it had to do with the perceptions in terms of the rights firmly fastened by the United States and the Constitution itself. Even though the administration was robust in terms of protecting African Americans, prosecution in the case of Emmett Till a considerable amount of leg