Eleanor Strubing (left) still maintained that her story was true after the trial was over....Marshall (2017)REEL FACE:REAL FACE:Kate Hudson Born: April 19, 1979 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USAEleanor "Ellie" Strubing Born: Jan 3, abt 1908 Birthplace: Woodbury, New Jersey, USA Socialite Accuser11 more rows
Strubing, died in 1961 and she remarried to John W. Barclay. Stribing died at 92 years old in 2000. Joseph Spell moved to East Orange, New Jersey after the trial.Jul 14, 2021
The NAACP hired Sam Friedman, a Bridgeport civil trial attorney, to represent Spell. Marshall was brought in to help Friedman, who had no experience as a criminal defender. Nationwide, white Americans assumed Spell was guilty.Oct 5, 2017
Spell was acquitted on January 31, 1941. The jury had deliberated for nearly 13 hours. Immediately after the trial Marshall travelled to Oklahoma to assist with the defense of W.D. Lyons.
After 12 hours of deliberation, the all-white jury returned with a verdict: the acquittal of Joseph Spell. “It was a miracle,” Haygood says.Oct 6, 2017
Friedman died in March 1990 in New York City from pneumonia.
According to Strubing, Spell raped her, made her get dressed, took her downstairs, bound her hands and feet, and raped her again. After forcing her to write a ransom note, Spell put Strubing in the car, cut off the bottom of her dress and gagged her with the remnant, and drove until a policeman stopped the car.
Marshall is a 2017 American biographical legal drama film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell.