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.
The tomb is guarded against theft, but Jesus rises and appears to Mary Magdalene.
Medieval pigs are put on trial, spend time in prison and then are executed for their "crimes."
Killer animals are on trial because people believe Satan acts through those animals.
A lawyer tries to defend a pack of rats, but problems arise in summoning the rats to court.
Mary Dyer defies Puritan authorities and leaves Massachusetts with Hutchinson, but makes the mistake of going back to England.
Blacks are in favor of forced busing to get educational equality, but whites protest.
Illinois has a law allowing husbands to declare their wives insane and have them committed to an asylum.
Learn about Marie Antoinette's royal childhood and see the three palaces where she spends her time.
When his main contact in America defects in Paris, Rudolf Abel is "found out." The FBI tracks him down, to his Brooklyn neighborhood, and arrests him ...
With the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, the South continues to legally practice racial inequality as a way of life.
The jurors selected in the William Penn case side with the defendant, surprising the judges.
The jurors stand by their verdict, in favor of William Penn, are willing to starve for it.
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