In 1793, Virginia's most powerful family found itself embroiled in Richard Randolph and his sister-in-law, the beautiful Nancy Randolph, were charged with adultery and infanticide. Richard Randolph demanded a public trial. They hired John Marshall, a young lawyer who was connected to their family through marriage, to defend them. John Marshall would go on to become the greatest Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a man whose theories of law are now taught to every first year law student, th...
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