[identity profile] bigbumble.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Even Clarence Darrow couldn't keep John Scopes from being convicted. There is some small progress in the world.

[identity profile] catsittingstill.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Scopes wasn't convicted of being wrong, after all--he was convicted of teaching evolution. Which he did do.

Having a law against teaching evolution is crazy, of course, but he did break the crazy law.

[identity profile] dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The conviction was expected. Scopes was a test case intended to challenge the law's constitutionality.

Unfortunately, the Tennessee Supreme Court found a technicality with the setting of the penalty that derailed the appeal.

[identity profile] catsittingstill.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I was pretty sure they expected to lose. Pity about the appeal, though.