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Demonstration for the Jury

2003 Reader Submission
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Clement Vallandigham was widely known as a "copperhead" - a Northern Democrat who supported peace during the Civil War.

After the war, he became a respected lawyer. One day, a client on trial for murder, Thomas McGehan, hired him. Thomas's defense was that the victim, Tom Myers, had drawn his own gun in a fashion that caused it to go off, killing himself. In order to prove his case, Vallandigham demonstrated Myers' method of drawing the gun - with a loaded pistol. He lost his life, but won the case.

Submitted on 01/14/02

Submitted by: Steve
Reference: Limits of Dissent, 1970, p309

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Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
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