Talk:Elijah Adlow

Latest comment: 3 years ago by 24.250.16.161 in topic Untitled

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I’m unable right now, but this article should mention his refusal to charge officer Walter Dugan in 1970 after he shot and killed Franklin Lynch, a black man, for snapping a towel at him. Judge Adlow held that the potential embarrassment to Dugan justified killing a black man.

Adlow was also famously against public defenders, and in his statements about this he stated that “negroes” were better off in his court without a defense attorney, because he considered them less responsible than white men and therefore went easy on them. See: https://books.google.com/books?id=XPXGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=elijah+adlow&source=bl&ots=dQjGWDpNJi&sig=ACfU3U2MHfGI5rqWyEzkdc7WkLEoXlcVuw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv6fW3uffpAhUwRDABHQ1qDNU4ChDoATAGegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=elijah%20adlow&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.16.161 (talk) 16:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)Reply