Scopes trial

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noun

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
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence, evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
• Hypernyms:
trial