Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...John T. Scopes, 70, Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee...
...crazily through the present toward that outer rim falling away to fiery voids; he foresaw bits and pieces of tomorrow more readily than others. Fate would in time provide introductions to my contemporary literary idols, and I would be properly awed: imagine an apprentice lawyer in the presence of Darrow. Styron I would know better than Mailer, though each relationship fell short of intimacy...
Colorful courtroom psychology has been favored by many a U.S. defense lawyer, from Clarence Darrow to Melvin Belli, but this week much of it will end in North Carolina. As part of a broad effort to speed trials and impose uniform standards in the state's 100 counties, the North Carolina Supreme Court has issued a series of new rules governing courtroom decorum. Unless a judge gives special permission, lawyers will no longer be permitted to pace back and forth as they talk but will have to remain seated at their tables while interrogating witnesses. "Abusive language or offensive...