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Scopes may have actually been innocent of the crime to which his name is inexorably linked.

After the trial Scopes admitted to reporter William Kinsey Hutchinson " I didn't violate the law ," ( DeCamp p. 435 ) explaining that he had skipped the evolution lesson and his lawyers had coached his students to go on the stand ; the Dayton businessmen had assumed he had violated the law.

Hutchinson did not file his story until after the Scopes appeal was decided in 1927.

Scopes also admitted the truth to the wife of the Universalist minister Charles Francis Potter.