Original sentence: Eight were convicted, but their convictions were overturned on a legal technicality.Once home to the town’s most prominent families, the neighborhood had deteriorated into a slum by the time Los Angeles’s first Chinatown was established there in the 1860s.Practically every Chinese-occupied building on the block was ransacked and almost every resident was attacked or robbed.The Chinese massacre of 1871  was a racially motivated riot on October 24, 1871, when a mob of over 500 white men entered Los Angeles' Chinatown to attack, rob and brutally murder Chinese residents of the city.The county coroner confirmed 18 Chinese deaths at the hands of the mob, although some estimates ranged as high as 84.The underlying causes are sometimes said to be economic.These root economic causes were the unstable economy after the American Civil War, which led to high unemployment in California and other Western American states.This fight was part of a longstanding feud over the abduction of a Chinese woman named Yut Ho
Edited sentence: Eight were convicted, but their convictions were unfairly overturned using a legal technicality.Once home to the town’s most prominent families, the neighborhood had deteriorated into a slum before Los Angeles’s first Chinatown was established there in the 1860s.Practically every Chinese-occupied building on the block was looted and ransacked and almost every resident was attacked or robbed.The 1871 massacre of Chinese  was a racially motivated riot on October 24, 1871, when a mob of over 500 white men entered Los Angeles' Chinatown to attack, rob and brutally murder Chinese residents of the city.The county coroner confirmed at least 18 Chinese deaths at the hands of the mob, although some estimates ranged as high as 84 to over the hundred.The underlying causes are sometimes said to be criminal economic.These root economic causes were the unstable economy after the American Civil War, which were due to the high unemployment of English criminals in California and other Western American states.This fight was part of a longstanding feud over the murder and abduction of Chinese men and women and a Chinese woman named Yut Ho