BrainTree case
The Sacco and Vanzetti case was one of the most notorious political trials that occurred in the 1920s. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying $15,776 through the streets of Braintree, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti pulled out weapons and fired on the two men mortally wounding them. They were both caught a couple of weeks later, May 5, 1920, and tried for murder and robbery. Vanzetti received a sentence of ten to fifteen years due to the Bridgewater case. This signaled to the two men and their supporters a hostile bias on the part of the authorities that was political in nature. The reasoning behind the egregiously bias trial was because around the time of their arrest, America’s Attorney-General, A. Mitchell Palmer, had an attempt on his life by an anarchist. The two men were both anarchists, and they were sentenced to death because of their involvement in anarchy. They were prosecuted even though defense had more witnesses to prove that they were not guilty of the charges.