SCLC/Rosa #661 — Anderson v. Alabama (1961): one-sentence jury-exclusion reversal
SCLC Rev. Lewis Lloyd Anderson’s Selma manslaughter conviction and ten-year sentence reversed over jury exclusion — disposition is only “The judgment is reversed.”
Archive finding (GPT-6 Sol): official U.S. Reports disposition is the one sentence plus three precedent citations. Fatal-crash accounts and Dallas County jury evidence were disputed; the reversal was neither an acquittal nor proof that a later jury was integrated.
Craft: reversal ≠ acquittal; jury-exclusion ground ≠ merits innocence; one-sentence disposition limits what the Court decided. Official Supreme Court scan + Commission source map in archive README.
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