5/19/2023 0 Comments To set a watchman![]() ![]() ![]() Generations have admired Finch for his fidelity to due process even at the risk of unpopularity and personal harm. Not only did Finch ably defend Robinson in court one evening he also faced down a mob that sought to abduct the defendant from jail in order to lynch him. What’s more, Robinson was accused of having raped a white woman. Lee had portrayed Finch as zealously representing a black man, Tom Robinson, despite intense disapproval from many whites. ![]() He asserted that Atticus Finch, the iconic hero of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” ought not be lauded as a role model for attorneys. In 1992, a law professor named Monroe Freedman published an article in Legal Times, a magazine for practitioners. ![]()
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