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American History Lecture Ten

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The next day, it was 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 him to 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 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>
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