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<h1><b>Appeals Court Tosses Conviction In Jena 6
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</a>POSTED: 4:10 pm CDT September 14, 2007<br>
UPDATED: 4:34 pm CDT September 14, 2007<br><br>
<b>JENA, La. -- </b>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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
Bell, who was 16 at the time of the beating, was due to be sentenced
Thursday in a case that has drawn international attention. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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