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Arrest of 600 Hispanic youths

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Criminal trial

The resulting criminal trial is now generally viewed as lacking in the fundamental requirements of due process. Twenty-two Chicano youths were indicted on the murder charges and placed on trial. The courtroom was small and during the trial the defendants were not allowed sit near or to communicate with their attorneys. Over defense objection, evidence of gang affiliation was introduced. In United States law, adopted from English Law, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that the government must respect all of a persons legal rights instead of just some or most of those legal rights when the government deprives a person of life, liberty... For other uses, see Chicano (disambiguation). ...

Three of the defendants were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison; nine were convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to five-to-life, five were convicted of assault and released for time served, and five were acquitted. All of the jurors in each case were white. The defendants began serving their sentences in January 1943. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Convictions reversed on appeal

The East Los Angeles, California community came to the support of the defendants. They created the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, composed of Leftists - including Carey McWilliams (an activist and attorney in addition to being a historian) - African-Americans, and Mexican-American community leaders. Welcome sign on Atlantic Boulevard East Los Angeles (often shortened to East L.A. or East Los or in Spanish El Este) is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

In October, 1944, the Court of Appeal of the State of California reversed the convictions, in the case of People v Zamora 66 Cal.App.2d 166.

Louie Encinas was decades later identified by his sister as the true killer. She alleged that he stabbed the victim moments before the defendants arrived. He later committed suicide. Officially the murder remains unsolved.

See also

• 38th street gang
• East Los Angeles, California
• Pachuco

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External links

• Sleepy Lagoon Website
• Pagán, Eduardo Obregón Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. University of North Carolina Press (2003)
• USC Los Angeles History: The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery
• UCLA Sleepy Lagoon Symposium (2005)
• The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Constitutional Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy. A commemorative symposium, May 20-21, 2005, UCLA
• PBS special
• Dimitroff, James S. The 1942 Sleepy Lagoon Murder - Catalyst for Mexican-American Militancy in Los Angeles.
• Endore, S. Guy. The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery (1972) ASIN B0006X9OYO
• Greenfield, Alice. The Sleepy Lagoon Case - A Pageant of Prejudice ASIN B0007F4WKM
• McWilliams, Carey, "Second Thoughts," The Nation (April 7, 1979)
• Servin, Manuel, The Mexican-Americans: An Awakening Minority. (1970) ISBN 0-02-477940-7

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Mentioned In

• Paul D. Marks
• James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere
• Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit