Due Process and Other Questions

Due Process - I didn't want to just copy and paste this, but try and interpret it and put it in my own words...Due process is the government has to adhere to a person's rights, all of them, and not just one, two, or a few when it comes down to legal business and in the court of law. When it comes down to it, everything must be fair to everyone.

Walter Burgwyn Jones - He was an Alabama court judge and later on a politician. Since he was a judge, I am guessing he was an honest, thinking man. Back then, since he was from the south, he was probably a "southern gentelman" as well. Looking at a few websites about the man, he ran in 1956 for president and receieved only one electorial vote, getting destroyed in the race. He wrote "Citizenship and Voting in Alabama," "Confederate War Poems," "Alabama...Practice of Law." He was the judge in the in the below case. Jones did everything in his power to not allow the African Americans to not have any rights in the case. Jones apparently overruled his own book, which is ironic.

T. Eric Embry - He was a defense lawyer, and a member of the Alabama Supreme court as a judge (justice). Embry, "who as a trial lawyer represented The New York Times in what became the landmark libel case New York Times Company v. Sullivan." (according to query.nytimes.com)

King John would not have approved because the due process system all comes down to fairness, and in this case there was no fairness going on. The climate in Alabama at the time was ignorance and blatant racism, as well as complete unfairness as to how the case was handled.