{"id":120915,"date":"2015-12-28T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/28\/lessthansix-falsedetective-what-i-learned\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T23:40:00","slug":"lessthansix-falsedetective-what-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/28\/lessthansix-falsedetective-what-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lessthansix.tumblr.com\/post\/134792218366\" target=\"_blank\">lessthansix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/falsedetective.tumblr.com\/post\/133828890954\" target=\"_blank\">falsedetective<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>what i learned today: in 1800 alexander hamilton and aaron burr were both defense lawyers for a guy who was accused of murder. they tried to cast suspicion on another guy who was near the scene of the crime, richard croucher. the details of what happened next are contentious, because the court transcript is vague and it honestly sounds like something either of these two fuckos would have done, so here\u2019s a brief run-down of the two equally beautiful stories that have evolved regarding richard croucher\u2019s day in court, paraphrased from ron chernow who was kind enough to ensure history didn\u2019t forget this anecdote<\/p>\n<p>the legend is, while croucher was testifying, hamilton held two candles under the dude\u2019s face, giving him a \u201csinister glow\u201d. he told the jury, \u201ci conjure you to look through that man\u2019s countenance to his conscience.\u201d apparently spooked by a-ham\u2019s theatrics, croucher confessed on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>however! aaron burr later insisted HE was the one who put on this circus show. his version of the story is, he grabbed two candelabras and thrust them at croucher, exclaiming \u201cBEHOLD THE MURDERER, GENTLEMEN!\u201d croucher then ran out of the courtroom in terror<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/edd734beec57836134d5232128e06d55\/tumblr_inline_nz1n9ev2I81qizxtr_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A rendition of this dramatic moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lessthansix: falsedetective: what i learned today: in 1800 alexander hamilton and aaron burr were both defense lawyers for a guy who was accused of murder. they tried to cast suspicion on another guy who was near the scene of the crime, richard croucher. the details of what happened next are contentious, because the court transcript &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/28\/lessthansix-falsedetective-what-i-learned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3456,6126,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}