Socrates Convicted Again In Modern Mock Trial

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Patrick Fitzgerald has taken down two governors, numerous mobsters and a few terrorists.

But he may have met his match in a 70-year-old Greek philosopher with a big mouth.

Fitzgerald, a former U.S. attorney who gained a national reputation for corruption-busting before going into private practice last year, prosecuted Socrates on Thursday as part of a mock trial intended to raise money for the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.

Zeus appeared to shine favorably upon Fitzgerald as a faux jury found the philosopher guilty of corrupting the youths of ancient Athens and disrespecting its gods -- just as the original panel did in 399 B.C. Jurors did spare Socrates from the death penalty, but that's probably cold comfort to the philosopher, who performed his own execution by drinking hemlock juice after the first trial.


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