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The great clarence darrow and the massie trial

The great clarence darrow and the massie trial

lCarence Darrow came out of retirement several times. Once for the Scopes trial, once for the Leopold and Leob trial and once for the Massie case in Honolulu. The Massie affair began in 1931 when a young navy wife Thalia Massie claimed she had been gang raped by four or five Hawaiians. Arrests followed and a jury, which included two Chinese and two Japanese jurors, heard final arguments on December 1, 1931. After ninety seven hours of deliberations the jury…

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