"Summation in the Haywood Trial"
Speech
By: Clarence Darrow
Date: 1907
Source: Darrow, Clarence. "Summation in the Haywood Trial." In Lindner, Doug, ed. Famous Trials in American History: The Trial of Bill Haywood. Available online at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HA... ; website home page: http://www.law.umkc.edu (accessed May 15, 2003)
About the Author: Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was one of the most famous criminal defense and civil liberties lawyers in the twentieth century. He represented miners in a coal strike in Pennsylvania in 1903, but his most famous case was his defense in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. Among his other clients were Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, defendants in the "thrill" murder trial (1924), and Eugene Debs, the...
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