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.
A receipts ledger with Capone's name on it shows profits from his gambling house; it is enough evidence to charge him with income tax evasion.
Desmond sees giving up his children as temporary, but the government has other ideas.
Guiteau shoots the President twice, resulting in a back wound that later becomes infected and kills Garfield.
Frank runs away and decides to fake a career as an airline pilot; he is 16 years old.
Wallace is given a show trial but he is not allowed a lawyer or to speak on his own behalf.
Cornwallis wants Tone quickly tried and executed, so there was no justice.
Critics of "That Convention" say it resembles "a lunatic asylum, and that Susan "represented the aggressive female American brains."
People make negative remarks about Susan B. Anthony because of her views.
To get rid of all the evidence, Webster cuts up Parkman's body and burns the pieces in his Harvard lab.
Others tried to intervene to save Tone without success.
Scottish resistance begins full force in 1297, when Wallace and his men kill the sheriff of Lanark and 240 others.
Although many men ridicule the idea of votes for women, presidential candidate Horace Greeley did not.
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