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Alabama Circuit Court Judge James E.
Horton, after presiding over the 1933 Decatur trial of
Haywood Patterson, threw out the guilty verdict as
incompatible with the evidence, and a new trial was
granted. This courageous act brought an end to his
political career and made him a social pariah but was
highly influential in drawing attention to the gaps and
contradictions in the prosecution's evidence.
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