Diversity in county discussed
MOUNT VERNON — The Knox County Democratic Women hosted "A Conversation on Diversity in Knox County" on Tuesday evening at the Knox County Educational Service Center. The event was the second of four community forums designed to explore national issues that impact life in Knox County.
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Diversity in today’s global environment, is not a bad idea. It’s not a new idea either. Failure to understand and accept diversity can occur in the branch of the executive, the legislative, the judicial or within society itself.
“Social order is based on law, and its perpetuity on its fair and impartial administration. Deliberate injustice is more fatal to the one who imposes it than to the one on whom it is imposed. The victim may die quickly and his suffering cease, but the teachings of Chrisitanity and the uniform lesson of all history illustrate without exception that its perpetrators not only pay the penalty themselves, but their children through endless generations….”
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“It therefore becomes the duty of the Court under the law to grant the motion made in this case.
“It is therefore ordered and adjudged by the Court that the motion be granted; that the verdict of the jury in this case and the judgment of the Court sentencing this defendant to death be set aside and that a new trial is hereby ordered.”
“Judge Horton put down his typewritten manuscript. He had been reading for sixty-five minutes.”
The Honorable James Edwin Horton, Limestone County Circuit Judge, Eighth District, Athens, Alabama, Thursday 22 June 1933, granting a motion for a new trial in State of Alabama v. Haywood Patterson (one of nine of the “Scottsboro” defendants).
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Douglas O. Linder, Esq., Elmer Powell Peer Professor of Law; B.A. (Gustavus Adolphus College); J.D. (Stanford Law School), University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
More at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/trialheroes/essayhorton.html
JPJ 6:58pm, Saturday July 4, 2009