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Shoeless Joe was the victim of judicial activism and collusion by owners.  He was acquitted at trial, but merely a day after the verdict and without doing any investigation, Commissioner (and former judicial activist) Landis made him the scapegoat for misconduct by others.  Shoeless Joe then won a civil case against the White Sox, but the judge tossed out the jury verdict.<ref>https://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/shoelessjoetrialmilwaukee.html</ref>  The smears of Shoeless Joe by ''Eight Men Out'' and other accounts of him fail to include how a jury held in favor of him in his civil trial.

Shoeless Joe was the victim of judicial activism and collusion by owners.  He was acquitted at trial, but merely a day after the verdict and without doing any investigation, Commissioner (and former judicial activist) Landis made him the scapegoat for misconduct by others.  Shoeless Joe then won a civil case against the White Sox, but the judge tossed out the jury verdict.<ref>https://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/shoelessjoetrialmilwaukee.html</ref>  The smears of Shoeless Joe by ''Eight Men Out'' and other accounts of him fail to include how a jury held in favor of him in his civil trial.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the perpetrator of this injustice, had repeatedly abused his power as a federal district court judge, and was repeatedly reversed on appeal.  He had previously been overturned for an activist ruling against Standard Oil.  He imposed numerous draconian sentences against people who resisted the draft during [[World War I]], some of which were reversed on appeal while others were commuted. In agreeing to become baseball commissioner, he insisted on absolute power, and then he abused it. Landis was a racist who kept blacks out of the major leagues, yet his name is engraved into [[MLB]] MVP awards.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the perpetrator of this injustice, had repeatedly abused his power as a federal district court judge, and was repeatedly reversed on appeal.  He had previously been overturned for an activist ruling against Standard Oil.  He imposed numerous draconian sentences against people who resisted the draft during [[World War I]], some of which were reversed on appeal while others were commuted. In agreeing to become baseball commissioner, he insisted on absolute power, and then he abused it. The tyrant Landis was a racist who kept blacks out of the major leagues, yet his name is engraved into [[MLB]] MVP awards to the dismay of recipients.

A recounting of the criminal and civil trials by a former prosecutor overlooks the significance of how the former judge Landis and the state court judge pandered to the headlines to rashly and harshly punish the high-profile Jackson, whom they personally disliked.<ref>https://sabr.org/research/ever-changing-story-exposition-and-analysis-shoeless-joe-jacksons-public-statements-black</ref>  Commentary hostile to Jackson often overlook that he was illiterate, and was deprived of due process by Landis in banning Jackson for life without even doing an investigation.

A recounting of the criminal and civil trials by a former prosecutor overlooks the significance of how the former judge Landis and the state court judge pandered to the headlines to rashly and harshly punish the high-profile Jackson, whom they personally disliked.<ref>https://sabr.org/research/ever-changing-story-exposition-and-analysis-shoeless-joe-jacksons-public-statements-black</ref>  Commentary hostile to Jackson often overlook that he was illiterate, and was deprived of due process by Landis in banning Jackson for life without even doing an investigation.