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Clarence Seward Darrow ( / ˈdæroʊ /; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense.
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Jun 10, 2011 · Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis....
Jun 25, 2019 · Clarence Darrow became the most famous defense lawyer in early 20th century America by taking on cases considered hopeless and emerging as a leading voice for civil liberties.
Jun 4, 2024 · Clarence Darrow was a lawyer whose work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him a place in American legal history. He was also well known as a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer.
May 29, 2018 · Lawyer and social reformer Clarence Seward Darrow was the most famous and controversial defense attorney of the early twentieth century. He won unprecedented fame in momentous courtroom battles in which he championed the causes of labor, liberal social thought, and the use of scientific criminology.
Clarence Darrow was born before the Civil War and he lived long enough to denounce Hitler. He became a lawyer in 1879 and was still defending clients in 1936. His life and legal career spanned some of the most important and transformative events in the history of the United States.
HISTORY. Clarence Darrow: Jury Tamperer? Newly unearthed documents shed light on claims that the famous criminal attorney bribed a juror. John A. Farrell. December 2011. Clarence Darrow,...
By the 1920s Darrow was back on top as the most famous trial attorney in America, a persuasive speaker who earned up to a quarter million dollars a case. But it wasn't the law that excited him —...
May 1, 2012 · Farrell shows how Pinkertons were hired to infiltrate Darrow's defense team, so Darrow may have felt he was justified in using extra legal tactics, that is if he was guilty. Some of his friends thought he was.
