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What role did John Adams play in the Boston Massacre trials?

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as a young LAWYER the future president served as counsel for the defense in the trial of eight British soldiers accused of murder during a riot in Boston on March 5, 1770.
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He was a lawyer.

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He defended a British soldier from this massacre. I think he won the case for the soldier too.