Patrick Calhoun , president of the United Railroad Company , was charged with bribing the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in exchange for granting the overhead trolley franchise to his company in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . Rogers defended Calhoun , but during his trials and all the related trials of United Railroad Company 's general counsel , Tiery Ford , Rogers did not call a single witness nor introduce any evidence , arguing that the prosecution simply had n't made a case against the defendants . On June 20 , 1909 , the Calhoun jury was deadlocked , with the final jury vote at ten for acquittal and two for conviction . He was not retried . Perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history were those which developed between Clarence Darrow , indicted for attempted jury bribery in Los Angeles in 1912 , and Earl Rogers . The case arose out of Darrow ’s defense of the McNamara brothers , labor leaders who were indicted in the 1910 dynamiting of the '' Los Angeles Times '' building , in which 21 '' Times '' non-union employees were killed
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Earl Rogers