Sacco and Vanzetti: The Breakdown of the Legal System

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Breakdown of the Legal System

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were viewed by the American public as anarchists and radicalists. When these men were on trial for murder, the people involved in the case viewed them this way as well. Sacco and Vanzetti were fighting for their lives against people like Webster Thayer, the presiding judge of the case, and Fredrick Katzmann, the prosecutor who saw these men as the American public did. Because everyone, even people involved in the case, only paid attention to their political views and not evidence, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted not because they were guilty of murder, but because they were guilty of having radical views.
If the jury had looked only at the evidence, neither Sacco nor Vanzetti would have been convicted (Montgomery 3). On April 19, 1920, Sacco and Vanzetti were with a man named Ferruchio Coacci, who had a warrant out for his arrest and deportation. Because Sacco and Vanzetti were wi...