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on charges of second-degree murder stemming from the death of his opponent, John "Bull" Young, from a blow to the head in the eleventh round of a boxing match on August 22, 1913. On
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Darrow was acquitted, but he was later indicted for allegedly attempting to bribe another juror in the McNamara case. Rogers began the second case as lead counsel but was soon forced to withdraw for health reasons. The second bribery trial ended in a hung jury, with several jurors holding out for a
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against a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the 16-year-old sister of his mistress, while he was running for mayor. Before that, after declaring his candidacy, he had been indicted on a concocted charge (later dropped) in the beating death of a disabled homeless man, and then
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murder case. In the early morning of August 13, 1902, at the
Metropole Hotel, a gambler, William A. Yeagar, better known as "the Louisville Sport," was murdered during a card game. Alfred Boyd was one of three men in the room playing poker. Harry Johnson, who was at the table, ran from the room,
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particularly damaging testimony by a prosecution witness, was to rise and create a scene, inevitably being warned of contempt by the court, but making the jury forget the point of evidence that had been made minutes earlier.
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pulp-fiction story in 1933, inspired by the success and techniques of Rogers, but filled with details and locations from Gardner's life. The character later appeared in more than 80 novels by Gardner, as well as
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yelling "He shot him, he shot him!" and handed Boyd's gun to bartender Jim Davis, who thought that there was no question that Boyd was the killer. Boyd was charged with the murder, but Rogers won an acquittal.
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after the 1919 World Series), was quoted as saying "Even when he's drunk, Earl Rogers is better than any other stone-sober lawyer in the whole damned country".
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