How Did Leo Frank Corrupt

The Justice System is not always severed justify and righteous actions throughout history towards innocent individuate. Due to the fact, that the system can be very corrupted by forcing oneself to self-incriminate. However, that does not mean that the Justice System is not always corrupted and incorrect with their decisions on certain cases. Which can cause some dispute among the general eye of the public. For example, the Leo Frank case was one of "most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia" (Dinnerstein). Due to the fact, Leo Frank was put to death for a crime that he did not commit at the time.

Leo Frank was a Jewish man who lived in the Atlanta, Georgia. Leo was convicted for the murder and rape of a thirteen

years old girl, Mary Phagan (Dinnerstein). At the time, Leo owned the Atlanta's National Pencil Company that Mary Phagan worked at before her death (American Heritage). Frank was suspected for the murder due to reasoning that he was one of the last few people to see Mary Phagan before her death. Frank had paid Phagan the day before he had left the factory. However, no one saw Phagan leave that night after getting paid (American Heritage).
Mary Phagan’s body was found in the Pencil Company in the following morning by a watchman named, Newt Lee (American Heritage).

Later that day, the police arrive at Frank’s house to show Frank the dead body of Mary Phagan. The police arrested Frank base on how Frank reacted to the deceased body. Frank reacted with unrest and nervous reaction through the body. Therefore, causing the police to make Frank the prime suspect through the crime. However, he was showed the body at the state as it was found at the murder (American Heritage). Based on the autopsy showed that girl had giant bruised to the eyes, cuts to the cheeks of her face, was choked to death with her own underwear and with her skull broken (American Heritage). Frank may have gone into a state of shocked due to Mary Phagan’s death, causing him to panic with any responses or answer he told at the

time.
Later there were false statement given but Frank’s employees, stating that Frank was doing inappoction acts towards women during the workplace. With another false statement from another employee that swered that Frank had phone her multiple times to try allowing him to room with young girls. Later throughout the trial the false was proven false because the people who told had taken the statement back and disapprove as false. However, the media had already published the statements as major headlines for their papers (American Heritage). Causing an increase of hatred towards the general Jewish community (American Heritage).
When the trial took place, it brought people who are anti-Semitism and hate to Leo Frank because the paper give the general people an idea that Jewish men look for young girl to satisfy their sexual pleasure.

Therefore, giving Frank an unbiased jury was very difficult to accomplish. When the jury selection was over, many people gathered around the court house shouting, “Hang the Jew” (American Heritage). The procstionor, Solicitor Dorsey, claim that Phagan’s happened across Frank’s office where he stated there are the hair and blood of Phagan. However biolist informed the prosecution that the hair was not Phagan’s and the blood stain were just paint spots. However the prosecution just ignored the facts that was given to him (American Heritage). Most of the trial was focused on Jim Conley’s story about Leo Frank. He stated that Frank told Jim that he wanted to be with the young girl no matter the amount of force that is needed. Conley also stated that Frank had tried to offer him money to dispose the body of Phagan (American Heritage). During the time the defended fail to defend Frank by not cross referencing Conley’s story with events that actley took place during the Conley’s story (American Heritage). When Frank try to appeal to the Supreme Court with their case because of the anti- Semitism had cause him to become absent from his own court hearing. However, it was quickly rejected with a vote seven to two. (American Heritage). Frank was found guiltily and was sentence to

death by lynching by Judge L.S. Roan. However, Frank’s sentence was later changed from death to life in prison by the Georgia governor John Slaton (History).
However, the general public disagree with the idea of Leo Frank living a life sentence is prison. Therefore, the towns’ people broke into the jail to kidnap Frank. The people who kidnap him was the “Knights of Mary Phagan”, who was a group of twenty five armed men that use eight different car to use one as a decoy to insured the kidnapping (History). Frank was taken to the outskirts of Marietta, where Mary Phagan’s home was location. That is where Leo Frank was lynched by the general public, only requesting “that his wedding ring be returned to his wife” (History). Later, people gathered to see Frank’s deceased body to later people started wanting to violence his body. However, it was ordered that his body was to be taken down and given to the undertaker to properly buried the body (History).
Later in 1982, Leo Frank was proven innocence of the murder of Mary Phagan by Alonzo Mann (History). Later, Frank’s death was honor as show in fig.1 at the tree he was lynched at. Frank’s death and unfair trial was used to help overturn others’ sentences. For example, a death sentence on case that five black males murder a white man was overturn eight years later. Allowing the Supreme Court to grant “habeas corpus” towards similar cases as Leo Frank’s (Liebman). Over the years, more than forty cases had been review because of the ruling on the Leo Frankl Trial. Therefore, Frank’s unfair trial causes change throughout the justices system to change to help create unbiased and fair trials.