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.
Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.
Lizzie harms herself during her inquest by giving multiple answers to simple questions, which indicates a lack of truthfulness.
Even though Elizabeth avoids Mary in life, they are bound by death with adjoining graves.
Every month, PG&E sends 750,000 gallons of chrome 6 wastewater to the unlined ponds in Hinkley.
Evidence is too much for both Loeb and Leopold who both confess to the crime.
Schenck is charged and found guilty of conspiring to cause disobedience in the military.
The killing of Mary Jane Kelly, the Ripper's next victim, is one of the most shocking and infamous crimes in history.
Charlotte Doyle's abandonment of her family leads to the children's commitment to Ireland's industrial schools.
The people prosecuting Joan decide her fate before the trial begins. She is not given a lawyer and the person prosecuting her is also the judge in the...
Czolgosz may be insane, but his justice is swift, and he dies in the electric chair after confessing why he killed McKinley.
Celia cannot tell her side of the story in her own trial because slaves cannot testify.
Elizabeth and her husband go to trial; the jury finds her sane.
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