https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-roy-carolyn-bryant-and-jw-milam/ After their acquittal in the Emmett Till trial, defendant Roy ...

Read's defense team argued that she should not be retried on charges of second-degree murder, claiming the jury had reached an acquittal on those counts during the first trial. The court rejected ...