Video: Annie Andrews (’13)
Charleston School of Law graduate Annie Andrews (’13) joined us to talk about her experience as a student, her passion for the law and serving the greater good.
“A Crime on the Bayou” is the story of Gary Duncan, a black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, in New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and black teenagers outside a newly integrated school.
Later that night police burst into Duncan’s home and arrest him for assault on a minor. He was convicted without a jury, but his conviction was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968), which held for the first time that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to the states.
How? Why?
Professor Gammons takes us inside the courtroom in our latest episode of the Charleston School of Law podcast.
This Friday, Professor Gammons along with civil rights attorney, Armand Derfner (co-author of the book Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court) and Gary Duncan, the main subject of the film, will lead a panel discussion on the impact of the case. The event is this Friday at 2 p.m.
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Charleston School of Law graduate Annie Andrews (’13) joined us to talk about her experience as a student, her passion for the law and serving the greater good.
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