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<h1><b>Judge to Hear Arguments on Motions to Throw Out Conviction of Jena
Six’s Mychal Bell</b></h1><font size=3>Date: Tuesday, September 04,
2007<br>
By: Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com <br><br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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“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 <b>told
BlackAmericaWeb.com</b>.<br><br>
If the motion to toss out the convition fails, Scott said he will seek to
get a new trial.<br><br>
In the meantime, Bell’s father, Marcus Jones, said he tries to keep his
son’s spirits up.<br>
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“We prepare for the worse,” Jones <b>told BlackAmericaWeb.com</b>.
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