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: You've fallen for the liberal spin. In fact, everyone was stunned that Darrow pled his client guilty so that Darrow could avoid the witness stand. The judge had nothing to do with it.--[[User:Aschlafly|aschlafly]] 21:36, 31 December 2008 (EST)
: You've fallen for the liberal spin. In fact, everyone was stunned that Darrow pled his client guilty so that Darrow could avoid the witness stand. The judge had nothing to do with it.--[[User:Aschlafly|aschlafly]] 21:36, 31 December 2008 (EST)
: I definitely don't know as much about legal precedent as you, but I had to do a report on the trial a few years ago in high school, for which I looked up the press coverage from the time, and it said that the Attorney General stopped the questioning, because he didn't think there was anything about the examination of the attorneys which was relevant to the trial, because in the opinion of the attorney general, the only substantive part of the trial was whether or not Scopes had taught evolution.