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
In the grand jury, March 29-April 23
12023-04-12T21:04:33+00:00Anonymous19plain2023-04-16T20:41:43+00:00AnonymousTwenty cases were presented to the grand jury after March 27. They voted charges in all those cases, but only one indictment that sent a defendant for trial in the Court of General Sessions. In all the other cases they voted informations, sending the defendants for trial on lesser misdemeanor charges in the Court of Special Sessions. That was a far higher proportion of informations than in the cases presented in the first week after the disorder. That disparity could be the result of time passing since the disorder, making the actions presented to the grand jury appear less threatening. It could also have been that the cases presented later, after longer periods of investigation, were those in which prosecutors had more difficulty gathering evidence to support charges.