LIFE: Jena 6 conviction overtuned

Hopefully, most of you are familiar with the goings on surrounding the Jena 6 in Louisiana. If not, you can get the backstory here. With a major national protest scheduled to happen next week, the state's Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the aggravated second-degree battery conviction of one of the six black students found guilty of beating a white student (following a year of racial tension and discriminatory incidents at their high school), Mychal Bell. No word yet on what will happen with the other five. Read an account of the latest developments here.