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Reel Law Legal Moments at the Movie House March 2013
"The trouble is, when men start taking the law into their own hands they're just as apt in all the confusion and fun to start hanging somebody who's not a murderer as somebody who is. And then the next thing you know, they're hanging one another just for fun."
-Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda) persuades a vigilante mob not to lynch two young men accused of murder in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), a fictional portrayal of the future president as a novice lawyer in Illinois.
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