New Mexico's territorial supreme court judge upheld Yee Shun's conviction.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by multiple independent sources, including scholarly (John Wunder) and journalistic accounts (UNM, Hyperallergic, NBC News, AsAmNews), all consistent in stating the territorial supreme court upheld Yee Shun's conviction. [tier=silver indep_score=0.9 clusters=5 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Historical accounts largely derive from John Wunder's original historical research on the case (upstreams: John R. Wunder, 'Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun: A Turning Point in Chinese Legal Relationships in the Trans-Mississippi West,' New Mexico Historical Review (1990), Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
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- Monument Marks Little-Remembered Case That Set Precedent for Asian Americans to Testify in Court (seed:law_and_crime)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-monument-highlights-landmark-case-allowed-chinese-testify-u-s-n1117221 (corroboration)
- https://asamnews.com/2018/04/01/new-mexico-to-erect-a-sculpture-commemorating-historic-case-of-yee-shun/ (corroboration)
- http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.asam.021 (corroboration)
- https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/yee-shun.html (corroboration)
- https://hyperallergic.com/437277/public-sculpture-honors-court-case-asian-americans/ (corroboration)