| | Bryan--No, sir. I have no way to know. (Laughter in audience). | | Bryan--No, sir. I have no way to know. (Laughter in audience). |
| − | The next day, Judge Raulsten reversed his earlier ruling and declared that further testimony from Bryan or Darrow would be inadmissable. The jury had never been admitted during this part of the trial in any case. Darrow then followed the ACLU game-plan of requesting a guilty verdict. This was needed to challange the contitutionality of the law in the higher courts. | + | The next day, it was Darrow's turn to be cross-examined. But instead of upholding his end of the bargain, Darrow stunned the public by taking the unprecedented step of asking the jury for a guilty verdict against his client, the defendant teacher John Scopes.<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/day8.htm</ref> |
| − | After 8 days of trial, the jury gave Darrow exactly what he requested, after 9 minutes of deliberation. Scopes was found guilty on July 21 and ordered to pay a fine of $100 US, which was eliminated on a technicality on appeal. The Tennessee Constitution had a clause that any fine that high must be set by a jury, not by the judge. The state's Supreme Court vacated the verdict due to that, and then ruled that because Scopes no longer lived in the state, the case was moot.<ref><i>The Great Monkey Trial</i>, de Camp, L. Sprague, 1968. </ref> | + | After 8 days of trial, the jury gave Darrow exactly what he requested, after 9 minutes of deliberation. Scopes was found guilty on July 21 and ordered to pay a fine of $100 US, which was eliminated on a technicality on appeal. <ref>The Tennessee Constitution had a clause that any fine that high must be set by a jury, not by the judge. The state's Supreme Court vacated the verdict due to that, and then ruled that because Scopes no longer lived in the state, the case was moot.</ref> |