Robert Franks

American murder victim

Also known as: Bobby Franks

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In Clarence Darrow
…the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago. In the famous trial of John T. Scopes at Dayton, Tennessee (July 10–21, 1925), Darrow defended a high-school teacher who had broken a state law by presenting the Darwinian theory of evolution. In the Sweet case (1925–26), he won acquittal for a…
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In Leopold and Loeb
…kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert (Bobby) Franks for an “intellectual” thrill. Pleading guilty, the men were defended in a bench trial by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, who secured them life imprisonment rather than execution. Dubbed “the crime of the century,” by contemporaries and scholars, the trial dominated the news…
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