A) How did xenophobia (the fear of outsiders/foreigners/immigrants) prejudice against immigrants, and Sacco and Vanzetti’s political beliefs influence the trial?
B) Why was the state (police, prosecutors, judge) determined to pin Sacco and Vanzetti with these crimes? And how was Judge Webster Thayer himself prejudiced and unfair? Was their ethnicity the main factor behind Webster Thayer– a notoriously and openly prejudiced, powerful judge.
