In Douglas O. Linder’s “The Trials of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’”, Linder proves that the Scottsboro Boys are innocent because of medical proof that shows that the semen inside of the girls was old and non-motile, thus making it the most compelling piece of evidence. Less than two hours after the alleged rape, Doctor R. R. Bridges, a Scottsboro doctor, examined the girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. He stood for the defense and held vital and important information during Haywood Patterson’s second trial on March 30, 1933. Doctor R. R. Bridges confirmed that “semen was found in the vaginas of the two girls,” showed that “the girls were both calm, composed, and free of bleeding and vaginal damage,” and revealed that “the semen that [he] examined
