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What Are The Results Of The Tom Robinson Trial

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THE INTRODUCTION Good evening, my name is Kylee Marshik, it's my job to represent the state of Maycomb and serve as a prosecutor on this extremely important case. On August 26, 1936 the defendant Mr. Horace Gilmer was representing his client Bob Ewell in the case of Maycomb vs Robinson, when he allegedly disrespected and abused the defendant on stand. When it was time for the defendant to go on stand and testify, the defendant Tom Robinson was being questioned by Mr. Gilmer when the allegations took place, Mr. Gilmer said disrespectful and hurtful things to the defendant Tom Robinson that were not called for, Tom was called hurtful and offensive names, slurs, and phrases. At the conclusion of the trial, when you have heard all the evidence, …show more content…

Horace Gilmer's actions against Tom Robinson on the day of August 26, 1936. The reason he was on the prosecuting party was to represent Mayella Ewell on her accusations against Tom Robinson, her allegations played out as so, she claims she asked tom to come inside and help her destroy a cabinet, when he did she said she caught her off guard and raped her, and when he was in the middle of said act, he father Bob Ewell saw this through a window and ran to check on her then called the shariff Heck Tate, then in Toms claim he said that Mayella invited him in to fix a door and while he was looking for it she hugged him from behind and kissed him, this is when Bob Ewell had seen them through the window and he ran to Mayella and Tom and when he got there Tom had ran away. This left the jury confused and in need of a meeting, so they went out and met with each other and decided Tom Robinson was guilty, he was put into prison where he was shot trying to escape and …show more content…

Gilmer asked him a few questions about the potential crime committed, when Tom tried to explain his side of the story Mr. Gilmer interpreted with “then you say she's a lying boy (Lee 264)?”
Then later on when Tom was saying how he just wanted to help her with her chores every once and awhile Mr. Gilmer came back with, “you felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her (Lee 264),”
When he tried to say something back there were times when Mr. Gilmer came back with rude and unnecessary things such as “are you being impudent to me, boy (Lee 265)?” There were many other things Mr. Gilmer said that shouldn't have been said that day.
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Mr. Gilmer was rude and disrespectful to a black man on the stand without thought to the outcome of the trial or how people felt about the ordeal.

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