scopes trial
Noun
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A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school;
Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow;
Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed (synset 101199249)referred to in:- jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
- evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny - (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
is a type of: trial - (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
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