Crowe had mentioned that the boys had run up huge gambling debts playing bridge. Your Honor, that we are dealing in human life. We are talking of placing a blot upon the escutcheon of two houses that do not deserve it. Leopold, with his obsession of the superman, had repeatedly said that Loeb was his idea of the superman. He had the attitude toward him that one has to his most devoted friend, or that a man has to a lover.
Nobody can explain it any other way.
No one can imagine it any other way. It is not possible that it could have happened in any other way. We placed our fate in the hands of a trained court, thinking that he would be more mindful and considerate than a jury. I cannot say how people feel. I have stood here for three months as one might stand at the ocean trying to sweep back the tide.