Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935Main MenuREAD ME: Help Navigating This BookIntroductionOn the StreetsIn the CourtsUnder InvestigationThe Mayor's Commission on Conditions in HarlemOver TimeEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
Cases in the Court of Special Sessions (42)
12020-03-31T15:45:54+00:00Anonymous122plain2023-04-06T15:32:13+00:00AnonymousForty-two of those arrested in the disorder were tried in the Court of Special Sessions. Twenty of those cases were sent to the court by Magistrates; the remaining twenty-two cases came from the grand jury. The grand jury decided that those cases should be prosecuted as a misdemeanor and issued an information; when the grand jury decided that a case should be prosecuted as a felony, it issued an indictment and sent it to the Court of General Sessions.
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