But, was Clarence Darrow guilty of attempting to bribe a juror? That’s a question that Kevin Tierney asks in his biography of Darrow. Piecing together the evidence, Tierney (1979) writes that a good many people – including reporters and other attorney, such as Earl Rogers – thought he was guilty. Perhaps, Tierney says paraphrasing what Darrow said in cases he was defending, sometimes the ends justifies the means, and maybe this was a philosophy that was more than just courtroom rhetoric. Alan Dershowitz has also weighed in on the charges against Darrow: “There is now persuasive evidence that he may, in fact, have been guilty” (Dershowitz, 1996, p. v.). However, Geoffrey Cowan puts the issue in a contemporary context:
With considerable justification,
With considerable justification,