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:Bryan--Not near you. (Laughter and applause). ...
The next day , it was time Darrow's turn to be cross-examined as he had agreed. But instead of upholding his end of the bargain, Darrow stunned everyone by asking the jury to find his client guilty!<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/day8.htm</ref> The jury then deliberated for only 9 minutes, which is probably a record. It found Darrow 's client guilty and ordered to take pay a fine of $100, 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 witness standjudge. 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>
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