COM 317- Due process of law

According to due process of law, laws and legal proceedings must be fair. You must play by the rules. Walter Burgwyn was a judge who served in the Alabama state legislature from 1919-1920, then he was a circuit judge until 1935 and a presiding judge from 1935-1963. He is known because he is the judge who heard the famous Times vs. Sullivan case. Jones was very racist because he did not let black people have any rights. He also wrote several Confederate War poems. T. Eric Embry was hired by the Times to defend blacks in criminal cases. Jones was a circuit judge in Alababa who contradicted his own article by making it his mission to do everything possible in his power to prevent blacks from having any rights. Embry and Jones ended up meeting in court when Embry was a defense lawyer and Jones was the judge in the Sullivan case,