"I am 14 years old and I am participating in a mock trial. In this I am a prosecutor. I am supposed to be prosecuting Santa Anna on account of whether or not he is guilty of war crimes [of] having Davy Crockett and William Travis executed. I'm not sure whether he committed any crime or not at the Alamo. I read your War Room thing about [it], but I['m] still a little unclear. I would really appreciate your opinion on the matter.
If you read the War Room on this subject, you know the opinions differ as much as the people who wrote them. In a real trial, the judge would admonish the jury to set aside their personal feelings and determine if any laws were broken. Your job as a prosecutor is to prove the guilt, in this case, of General Santa Anna.
First you must establish under which laws you will be trying him. Pre-independance or post-independance. What laws were in effect?
Before independence, Texas was still part of Mexico, so Mexican law prevailed. Let's remember that one of the reasons that the revolution happened in the first place was because Santa Anna set aside the Mexican Constitution of 1824 , thus making himself the absolute ruler of Mexico.
That constitution held certain guarantees of freedom and of representation. Without these, Texas colonists were little more than prisoners in their own land. So, before Texas independence, Santa Anna made the rules. I doubt that you could have gotten a conviction…"
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