Blog 9 EOTO and Mock trial 2 FINSIH

 During the most recent mock trial series we did, my group and I were tasked with the criminal court Judge John Ferguson, the second prominent member of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Although there were many points brought up by Plessy during the Supreme Court case. Ultimately, during this time, Ferguson was going to win. For the side of the state, they claimed that this occurrence did not violate Plessy’s 13th, which outlawed slavery, and 14th Amendment, which granted full rights to American Americans. The major decision was said because this case did not show any signs of slavery. It was also said that the 14th Amendment was created for the reason of all races. The judge made it specifically clear that there was not going to be any special treatment towards African-Americans. Segregation did not constitute as unlawful discrimination. In my own opinion, I think for the time period, this case could have gone either way. One side is an emotional group of individuals who recently lost a massive war fighting for what they believe. This made it easy for them to search through every law in American history at the time and discrete where Plessy was wrong. The other side is a blood-thirsty group of people seeking a new life and change. For Plessy, he did have a point on the idea that slavery and discrimination were done with after the two Amendments. He also had evidence of the separate but equal sign on the train.