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People V Zammora Analysis

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Alice McGrath comes from Russian Jewish immigrant family, she became involved in the People v. Zammora case, though during the first part of the case she was hospitalized. After being hospitalized, she started to get involved in the case. She had noticed that the judge, Charles Fricke, was being disdainful and commented “If people were reading the commercial press…they would be getting a picture of a group of gangsters, killers…a very sensationalized picture of the defendants on trial for something they deserved to be punished for.” Meaning she was stating that the public would be looking at these people, these young boys as people who deserved to be punished for what they did, which to her was unfair especially how the judge was treating them.

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