Timeline of the scottsboro trials

Judge Horton postpones the trials of the other Scottsboro boys because of dangerously high local tensions. The Scottsboro Trials. Norris, paroled again, leaves Alabama. Fresh eyes on the case. All 9 Boys are arrested. A letter of denial. Executions may be appealed. Andy Wright is returned to Kilby prison. Haywood Patterson escapes from prison.

Convicted of murder. A new judge. Patterson gets caught. Charged with murder. Last boy pardoned. Norris is returned to prison. Ozzie Powell is paroled. Grounds for reversal are that Alabama failed to provide adequate assistance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Samuel S. Haywood Patterson's second trial begins in Decatur before judge James Horton.

Haywood Patterson found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Judge Horton postpones the trials of the other Scottsboro boys because of dangerously high local tensions.

In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials. Judge Horton sets aside Haywood Patterson's conviction and grants a new trial. Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape, convicted, and sentenced to death. Judge Horton, who had faced no opposition in his previous race, is defeated in his bid for re-election. Two lawyers are charged with attempting to bribe Victoria Price in order to change her testimony.

Supreme Court agrees to review the most recent Scottsboro convictions. Supreme Court overturns the convictions of Norris and Patterson because African Americans were excluded from sitting on the juries in their trials. Patterson v. State of Alabama, U.

July 22 - Charley Weems is convicted and sentenced to 75 years. July 23 - Ozie Powell's rape charges are dropped. He pleads guilty to assaulting a police officer and is sentenced to 20 years. December Bibb Graves, the governor of Alabama, meets with Chalmers to discuss clemency to the five convicted defendants.

July: Norris' death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Graves. August: A denial of parole is recommended for Patterson and Powell by an Alabama parole board. October Graves meets with the convicted defendants to consider parole. November The pardon applications of all five defendants are denied by Graves. November Weems is released on parole. January: Andy Wright and Clarence Norris are released on parole. September: Wright and Norris leave Alabama.

This is considered a violation of their parole. Norris returns to jail in October and Wright in October June: Ozie Powell is released from prison on parole.

September: Norris receives parole. July: Patterson escapes from prison and travels to Detroit. June 9: Andy Wright is released on parole and finds a job in New York. However, G. Mennen Williams, governor of Michigan does not extradite Patterson to Alabama. Alabama does not continue its attempts to return Patterson to prison. December: Patterson is charged with murder after a fight in a bar.

September: Patterson is sentenced to six to fifteen years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter. August: Patterson dies of cancer while serving time in prison. August: Roy Wright dies. Her claim, however, is dismissed. January Clarence Norris dies. He is the last surviving of the Scottsboro Boys.

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