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12 Oct, 2007 7:52 am
... that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said. Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the so-called Jena Six case is accused of beating a ... adults _ with attempted second-degree murder and
conspiracy to commit the same. A sixth defendant was charged in the case as a juvenile. Bell, who was 16 at the time, was convicted in June of
aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime. LaSalle ...
11 Oct, 2007 11:01 pm
Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell was sentenced to 18 months in jail today on a prior juvenile charge.
His parents were ordered to pay court costs and ... two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property. Bell was
on probation and had incurred new charges prior to the December 4 incident ... six defendants being charged with felonies. More... Three months prior to that [December 4] attack,
Bell committed two violent crimes while on probation for a battery Christmas Day 2005, ...
3 Dec, 2007 4:28 pm
Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. He will get an 18 month
sentence to a juvenile facility and receive credit for time served. He will serve about 8 more months before being released. Bell's attorneys
said they agreed to the plea bargain to spare the former high school ... and also to win early release from juvenile custody. In October, Mauffray sentenced Bell to 18 months in a juvenile facility for four prior juvenile convictions for battery and ...
28 Sep, 2007 1:08 am
Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell has been released on bond pending trial. He will be tried in juvenile
court. It's where charges should have been brought in the first place.
16 Sep, 2007 11:55 am
... receive equal and fair treatment under the law. Make no mistake about it though Mychal Bell is a
hero. By most accounts, Mr. Bell should have taken a plea agreement at the time of his trial. "A plea bargain would have put him back on the
streets in a matter of ... the playing field is often times an extension or reflection of the politics that operate in the public sphere. Moreover, Mr. Bell understood that whatever his football career might have been or might still become, he couldn ...
5 Jul, 2007 11:39 am
... no matter what the evidence. He was right. Last Thursday, June 28, 2007, Mychal Bell was
convicted of aggravated second degree assault and conspiracy to commit secondary ... mount a defense. He could have called reliable witnesses to the stand to testify that
Mychal didn't throw a punch in this fight. Most of the prosecution's witnesses who fingered ... they were first interviewed, none of them could
even remember if Mychal had even been present at the fight. They only remembered that a bunch of "black ...
23 Sep, 2007 3:28 pm
... in charging juveniles as adults. I think the only reason the kids were charged with such serious felonies was to get Mychal Bell, then a juvenile, into adult court. From details in this account of the trial, I also am confident in saying Mychal Bell ... an all white jury. His lawyer presented no evidence, despite there being a witness, a coach, who
would have said Bell was not the initial attacker. Eyewitness accounts varied greatly of everything from the sequence of events to who said
what to the ...
28 Sep, 2007 9:13 am
By DOUG SIMPSON Associated Press Writer JENA, La. (AP) _ Mychal Bell exited the courthouse, free for
the first time in 10 months. He was cheered by a crowd that included the Rev. Al Sharpton. But Bell's case ... decision. On Thursday, he said
he changed his mind because it was in the best interest of the victim and his family to allow Bell to be charged as a juvenile. "They are on
board with what I decided," Walters said at a news conference. Sharpton and other critics accuse Walters, who is white, ...
4 Dec, 2007 1:23 pm
... in the famous "Jena Six" case pled guilty yesterday to assaulting Justin Barker. Bell and five other black teenagers were charged with
attempted murder for beating Barker last ... he would have had to stay at a juvenile facility until he turned 21. Instead, Bell will be sent to
a group home and could return to public school as early as next week. ... the incident was not unlike a hate crime. Three months later, six teenagers--Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and ...
20 Sep, 2007 9:58 am
... swollen and bloodied, though he was able to attend a school function later that night. Bell, 16 at the time of the December attack, is the
only one of the "Jena Six" to be tried so ... 59, said he tried to convince visitors that the town was being treated unfairly and that Mychal
Bell belonged in jail. "I think we changed one man's mind," ... and with demonstrators who began showing up well before dawn. Sharpton said
Bell, whom he spoke with Wednesday, was heartened by the show of support. "He doesn't ...
20 Sep, 2007 12:57 pm
... of the nooses. Barker was treated at a hospital and released the same day, attending a school ring ceremony that evening. One student, Mychal Bell, was initially charged with attempted second-degree murder: a felony that carries a maximum sentence of
20 to 100 years in prison. Numerous details of Bell's trial raise questions of injustice, including the selection of an all-white jury that
included two friends of the D.A., a relative, ...
24 Sep, 2007 1:18 pm
... Louisiana, the Criminal justice is no worse than its Civil justice system, except for the harshness of being jailed. Also, proven from the criminal justice systems' prosecution of
Mychal Bell, the Louisiana appellate system has the greater authority (and could have thrown out
Bell's conviction long ago). Because of the seriousness of the matter, every chance I get I announce / point out the fact of the
destructiveness of ...
30 Dec, 2008 9:38 am
... the hospital Monday, days after his arrest on a shoplifting charge, police said. Mychal Bell's
wound isn't life threatening, said Monroe Police Sgt ... upset over the incident … and didn't want to be in the news again," she said. Bell was
one of a group of black teenagers who once faced attempted murder charges in the 2006 beating ... , according to a police report. He was freed on $1,300 bond. Wooten said
Bell was taken to a hospital in Monroe, where a nursing supervisor wouldn't release his condition. ...
7 Nov, 2008 4:42 pm
... Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles, was a partial victory for news media outlets that challenged the closure of the courtroom in the case of Mychal Bell. But the decision does not say whether the media can have access to records in the Bell ... Louisiana town of Jena for the largest civil rights march in decades. Charges for all of the defendants were reduced. Bell eventually pleaded guilty to a juvenile charge of second-degree battery. The Associated Press and other media companies had filed ...
12 Sep, 2007 9:03 am
By now, I suspect you all know the absurd and tragic story of the Jena 6. Mychal Bell, the first of
the six boys convicted, is scheduled to be sentenced on September 20th - 8 days from now. Although initially convicted of ... identified the issues - abuse of prosecutorial discretion,
disparities in setting bail amounts, concerns about the lack of diversity on the jury that convicted Bell, good ol' fashioned racism, and the
like. They expressed outrage at the events in Jena. At the same time, they ...
22 Sep, 2007 6:19 pm
... Six is this quote: After being represented by a public defender who did not call witnesses in Bell's defense, an all-white jury convicted
him Over time, details of ... itself. The most fleshed out paragraph about the trial and representation by counsel is this: Despite this, when Mychal Bell, the first youth to go to trial, refused to take a deal in exchange for testifying ... Bell and his parents because the youth did not take the deal, called no witnesses and gave no meaningful defense. So we know ...
3 Dec, 2007 1:36 pm
... allow him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and avoid a second trial, his attorney said. Mychal Bell, 17, could enter the plea as early as Monday, attorney Carol Powell Lexing said. He has been charged with aggravated second-degree battery and
conspiracy. "We ... was discharged and attended a school event the night after the attack, which occurred about a year ago. Bell was originally
charged as an adult with attempted murder. That charge was reduced before a jury convicted him in June ...
10 Jan, 2008 1:53 pm
... ? Based on her own reporting, she explains why it pays to be skeptical of the claims that Mychal Bell, the most prominent Jena 6 defendant, was railroaded by flat-out racists, both at school and in the courts. She points out that Bell's juvenile record, including an assault that Waldman reports on more fully than before ... were distorted or missed.I fault her, though, for not
explaining more. What were Bell's codefendants' roles in the beating? What kind of histories and reputations do they have ...
19 Sep, 2007 9:02 am
... NAACP as thousands of protesters were expected to march through Jena on Thursday in defense of Mychal Bell and five other teens. The group has become known as the Jena ... Court of Appeal, his sentencing had been set for Thursday. The court said
Bell, who was 16 at the time of the alleged December 2006 beating, shouldn't have been ... show from Alexandria on Wednesday, then travel about
35 miles to Jena in an attempt to visit Bell, who remains in jail because he is unable to post $90,000 bond. Sharpton ...
21 Sep, 2007 5:26 pm
Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell was not released on bail today. The hearing was not open to the
public. Yesterday, a Louisiana appeals court ordered that a hearing occur within 72 hours to determine if Bell could be released. The hearing
was held today. I'm wondering whether a probation revocation proceeding is pending that's preventing his release. According to this source, he was put on probation for ...
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