[Ppnews] Judge to Hear Arguments to Throw Out Conviction of Jena Six

[Political Prisoner News]

Judge to Hear Arguments on Motions to Throw Out Conviction of Jena 
Six's Mychal Bell

Date: Tuesday, September 04, 2007
By: Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com

A Louisiana judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on motions 
to toss out the conviction of Mychal Bell, the only one of six black 
teens to be convicted after facing charges of beating a white student 
in the small town of Jena following a series of racially charged 
incidents in 2006.

The other five  -- Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis, Carwin Jones, 
Theodore Shaw and one who has not been identified because he is a 
juvenile -- still await trial.

"Mychal was a juvenile at the time of the incident. This should have 
been handled in juvenile court. It is or opinion that the whole trial 
was null and void, and we are seeking a ruling that the conviction is 
null and void," Bell's attorney Louis Scott told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

If the motion to toss out the convition fails, Scott said he will 
seek to get a new trial.

In the meantime, Bell's father, Marcus Jones, said he tries to keep 
his son's spirits up.

"We prepare for the worse," Jones told BlackAmericaWeb.com.




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