Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Who was the largely self-taught California trial lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1911, who defended poor immigrants with a flair for courtroom theater — then spun his legal know-how into fiction, creating the most famous defense attorney in American pop culture and becoming, by the time he died, the best-selling American author of the 20th century?
Hint: He also used his fame to run a real-life project, decades before DNA testing existed, to exonerate people he believed had been wrongly convicted — his real-life innocence effort was called the “Court of Last Resort.”
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