Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
During the afternoon of October 26th, 1881, a famous gunfight erupts in Tombstone between the lawmen and the Cowboys.
A made-up newspaper article provokes Fish to write an incriminating letter to Gracie's family, which leads to his capture.
A bad lawyer and an insane judge doom the results of Florie's murder trial and sentence.
Florie is sentenced to hang, but after a public outcry against , Queen Victoria intervenes. Flories sentence is changed from death to 15 years in pri...
Charged with capital murder, Florence Maybrick endures a mistake-laden trial.
Florie attempts to make her own cosmetic arsenic, and implicates herself in James' death.
Tone is taken prisoner with his French colleagues and is charged as a traitor to Britain.
Ashamed of his past crimes, Abagnale is now a motivational speaker and family man.
Mary is tried and sentenced to hang.
Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American, ignores internment orders and his arrest and internment go to the Supreme Court, where is he found guilty.
John Quincy Adams wins the Amistad case for the captives, but there is no money to pay for the Africans' passage back to their homes.
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