FILM
Jan. 1, 2014
Reel Law
Legal Moments at the Movie House
"Your honor, I've been practicing law a good deal longer than I ought to have-defending now for 45, 46 years. During all that time, I've never tried a case where the state's attorney did not say it was the most cold-blooded, inexcusable case ever."
-A character based on attorney Clarence Darrow (Orson Welles) argues in Compulsion (1959) against death sentences for his clients, who had pleaded guilty to murder. The film tracks the infamous 1924 case...
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