"CULTIVATE the appearance of contrition," the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in "Race," a new play opening on Broadway next Sunday.
But unlike Atticus Finch, Marshall was much more reluctant to pursue a "she wanted it" defense on behalf of a black client accused of raping a white woman.
His lawyer, Vanessa Potkin — of the Innocence Project, a legal service that seeks to free convicts through DNA evidence — told the judge that newly tested DNA evidence had cleared her client of the 1984 rape, robbery and assault charges on which he had been sentenced to 13 1/3 to 40 years.
He was criticised for taking on clients like Asil Nadir or the businessman Owen Oyston, convicted of rape, but he was faithful to the "cab rank" rule that stops barristers turning down cases they don't want.
It comes just after Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, has seen his client, a black sharecropper named Tom Robinson, unjustly convicted of rape, despite Finch's impassioned defense, and he is left to pack up his papers.
"That was the lyrics to a song to be sung at the fraternity's Christmas party, sent in an email to the frat a couple days after one of our clients were raped," Cari Simon, one of the attorneys working on the case, told The Huffington Post on Friday.
He told the court he understood the charges, his lawyer told AP, adding that his client would plead not guilty to all three charges - two of rape and one of indecent assault - at his trial.
The lawyer for the Swedish woman who has accused Mr Assange of rape said the UN panel's finding was "insulting and offensive" toward her client.
Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
The president faces multiple charges of rape.
