Editing Moore v. Dempsey (section)

===U.S. Supreme Court Proceedings===
[[File:Supreme Court of the United States - Taft Court - c.1923 - (1923-1925) LCCN2016861504.png|thumb|The [[Taft Court]]]]
The Court did not consider issues related to the convictions of the accused black men, but rather whether their rights were abridged under the [[Due Process Clause]] of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]] by the process of the trial. In a 6–2 decision, Justice Holmes wrote for the Court that a mob-dominated trial violated the due process provisions. He also said that federal courts, upon being petitioned for a writ of ''habeas corpus,'' were compelled to review such claims of discrimination in state trials and to order the release of defendants judged unfairly convicted.