Who is Arthur Garfield Hays?

Hays is a friend of Darrow. Darrow is at the Greenwich Village home of Hays when the NAACP group comes to present the facts of the Sweet case to him. He is also a part of the defense team. Hays handles most of the issues that have to do with procedure and precedent. Hayes has to withdraw from the defense team for Roger's trial because of another case he is handling. He continues to fight for the civil liberties of the underdogs.