Darrow was successful in representing Henry Sweet, younger brother of Ossian Sweet, against charges of murder in ''Michigan v. Henry Sweet'', a Detroit murder trial resulting from the killing of Leon Breiner. The previous year, Darrow had argued to a mistrial the same case as charged against all nine people who were in the house from which the shots that killed Breiner were fired.<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sweet/chronology.HTM</ref>
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Darrow was successful in representing Henry Sweet, an African American and younger brother of Ossian Sweet, against charges of murder in ''Michigan v. Henry Sweet'', a Detroit murder trial resulting from the killing of Leon Breiner, a white man. The previous year, Darrow had argued to a mistrial the same case as charged against all nine people who were in the house from which the shots that killed Breiner were fired.<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sweet/chronology.HTM</ref>