[Ppnews] Appeals Court Tosses Conviction In Jena 6 Case

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Appeals Court Tosses Conviction In Jena 6 Case

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POSTED: 4:10 pm CDT September 14, 2007
UPDATED: 4:34 pm CDT September 14, 2007

JENA, La. -- A Louisiana appeals court has tossed out the battery 
conviction of a black teenager who faced 15 years in prison for the 
beating of a white classmate amid racial tensions in the north 
Louisiana town of Jena.

Mychal Bell had been convicted of aggravated second-degree battery. 
He's one of the so-called Jena Six, a group of black teenagers 
charged in the beating of Justin Barker last December.

Bell, who was 16 at the time of the beating, was due to be sentenced 
Thursday in a case that has drawn international attention.

He and four others were originally charged with attempted 
second-degree murder. Those charges brought widespread criticism that 
blacks were being treated more harshly than whites following racial 
altercations involving Jena High.




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