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In the process of appeal, the Communist Party USA took on the legal defense of half the defendants. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) defended the other half, seeking to get their convictions overturned. Among the NAACP attorneys were Thurgood Marshall , later appointed to the Supreme Court Of The United States , Clifford Roscoe Moore, Sr., later appointed U.S. Commissioner for Trenton, New Jersey, the first Black American appointed to such a position since post-Civil War Reconstruction Era , and Raymond Pace Alexander, later to become a judge in Pennsylvania. In the course of the appeal, trumped-up evidence was revealed and the medical examiner in Trenton was found guilty of perjury. The international attention focused on the case included many notables, from W.E.B. DuBois to Pete Seeger -- even Albert Einstein , who lived close by in Princeton, New Jersey. Commentary and protests were issued from many nations. REFERENCES
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