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The trial of Leopold and Loeb at Chicago's Cook County Criminal Court became a media spectacle and the third to be labeled "the trial of the century," after those of Harry Thaw and Sacco and Vanzetti. [46] The Leopold and Loeb families hired the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow to lead the defense team.
Trial of the century" is an idiomatic phrase used to describe certain well-known court cases, especially of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is often used popularly as a rhetorical device to attach importance to a trial and as such is not an objective observation.
Of the eleven people involved in the robbery, eight would receive life sentences after a trial, with two others dying before they could be convicted. Less than $60,000 of the more than $2.7 million stolen would ever be recovered. The robbery received significant press coverage and was eventually adapted into four movies.
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, died of cancer at age 76 on Wednesday, his family said. Simpson's murder trial was televised, and became ...
What is casually still called the “trial of the century” began 30 years ago today, and its legacy remains open to debate. Long after the O.J. Simpson double-murder case went to trial in ...
Hauptmann's guilt or lack thereof continues to be debated in the modern day. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection". [5] [6] American media called it the "crime of the century"; legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trials of the century". [7]
Thirty years after “the trial of the century” began, Netflix presents a four-part docuseries (now streaming) that revisits the barbarous stabbing murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend ...
The "Trial of the Century" was televised and captured the eyes of the nation, lasting seven months. Simpson was ultimately acquitted of all charges in 1995. Show comments. Advertisement.