Epstein Secrets

that a process resulting in the conviction of an innocent defendant could be “otherwise” constitutional reminds me of the apocryphal question put to Abraham Lincoln’s widow after the assassination in Ford Theater: “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?” Ifa defendant is factually innocent, there is

” constitutional reminds me of the apocryphal question put to Abraham Lincoln’s widow after the assassination in Ford Theater: “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?” Ifa defendant is factually innocent, there is no “other than that.” Listen to Justice Scalia on this subject: “This court

e transcripts. Some lawyers became famous even without the benefit of the electronic media. Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryant, Clarence Darrow were all household names. So were some of their famous and infamous clients. The advent of gavel to gavel television coverage has changed the way in

ice. One thing that was true is you did not have to belong to a church throughout the 19th century to become president, as Ingersoll often spoke of Lincoln. And it very much shows what the attitudes were during the Civil War, which was thought by many to be God's judgment. And Lincoln certainly could no

the 20th century, until after the Scopes trial. Stupid intellectuals in New York and Boston decided that religious fundamentalism was dead, because Clarence Darrow had humiliated Williams Jennings Bryan on the stand. Well, as we know now, it wasn't dead at all. It just retired a bit from politics and was biding

saw the flag of that slave-owning dictator on the Lincoln Monument, I got angry and tore it down. I was imm

ccess in debate and school politics. I had no idea what the practice of law was, except what I had read about the careers of such legal luminaries as Clarence Darrow, Thurgood Marshall, and Louis Brandeis. My uncle Morris was a lawyer, but he spent most of my formative years in the Army and when he returned he spe