Trivia Question of the Day

Failing At The Perfect Crime

Day 1 of Crime of the Century trivia week.

Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow

Ed note: For this week’s trivia questions, we will be focusing on the legal foibles involved in various criminal cases that, at some point, were deemed to be “The Crime of the Century.”

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime, and murdered Bobby Franks. They failed to get away with the crime, and in Clarence Darrow’s defense of the pair, referred to by some as the crime of the century, he gave an impassioned plea against what?

Hint: The 12-hour speech, considered one of the best of his career, was ultimately successful, persuading the judge.

See the answer on the next page.

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