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but immediately denounced as a fraud. John Webster went to his
death by hanging on August 20, 1850, still proclaiming his innocence.
To this day, Webster's guilt or innocence continues to be debated
along Brattle Street in Cambridge, at Harvard reunions and in law
school classes. What is beyond dispute is that Chief Justice Lemuel
Shaw was guilty of putting his thumb on the scales of justice and then
rewriting history to make his thumbprint disappear from the official
record.
Alan M. Dershowitz
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
JUNE 15, 1990
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