His body was found on May 12 not far from the Lindberghs home. The authorities got on the track of the Family after the murder of Sharon Tate, pregnant wife of Roman Polanski and her three guests.
But before the group and its leader were finally put behind bars, they committed another despicable murder, killing the LaBianca spouses.
In , Manson and the members of his Family were found guilty and sentenced to death. One year later, however, the State of California temporary abolished the death penalty and their sentence was turned into life imprisonment.
Manson who will soon turn 80 is currently serving his sentence at the Corcoran State Prison. In , the public was deeply upset by the accusations of child sexual abuse against the famous singer Michael Jackson. In , however, the case went to trial. In the 20th century, few trials attracted more attention than the 10 trials listed below.
From the Scopes Monkey Trial to the Nuremberg Trials and The Rosenberg Trial to Michael Jackson Trial, Americans were carefully following their development due to the people involved, controversy or atrocity of the crimes committed. If the defendants weren't already well known, they soon became famous, or infamous for that matter, for the trials they were involved in.
The final photograph of Alexander alive, showing him in the shower. Photos taken moments later show Alexander profusely bleeding on the bathroom floor. A bloody palm print was discovered along the wall in the bathroom hallway; it contained DNA from both Arias and Alexander.
Arias was arrested for the murder of Alexander. Arias pleaded not guilty. She told police that she had not seen Alexander since March Two years after her arrest, Arias told police that she killed Alexander in self-defense, claiming that she had been a victim of domestic violence.
Arias was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8, , and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Roy was suffering from depression at the time and had spoken about wanting to die. For some reason, Michelle at the time encouraged this. She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, chiefly on the basis of her final phone call in which she ordered Roy, after he had become scared, to go back inside his truck as it filled with lethal carbon monoxide.
Michelle Carter, which explores the complicated relationship between Carter and Roy, drawing on some of the thousands of texts they exchanged over two years to chronicle their courtship and its tragic consequences. On April 11, , George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was walking back from a 7-Eleven to a family home in Florida on a dark, rainy February evening in He was talking on his phone with his friend and carrying a bag of Skittles and an Arizona juice cooler.
For some unknown reason, Martin aroused the suspicions of neighbourhood watch leader George Zimmerman, who was driving past in his SUV at the time. Gotta watch out for those Skittles. Martin was unknown to Zimmerman. He was young, wore a hooded sweatshirt, walked slowly in the rain, and was black.
I know all the residents. It was raining out and he was leisurely walking, taking his time, looking at all the houses. What ended up happening has two wildly different versions, but ultimately.
Zimmerman shot Martin and killed him. This trial was one of the most intensely followed trials of the twenty-first century. On July 13, , the six-person jury rendered a not guilty verdict on all counts. There was public outrage over this verdict. Six months later, the trial concluded with a guilty verdict. Arias was sentenced to life without parole. Two sets of juries were unable to agree on the death penalty, however, resulting in Arias' automatic sentencing to life in prison.
FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text Message. Continued on next slide. Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer. Casey Anthony, center, sits at the defense table as her lawy. Critics instead argued Martin's race he was black as a motivating factor, both in the shooting and how the case was widely perceived afterward The jury's verdict acquitting Zimmerman of murder sparked protests nationwide.
Replay gallery. Pinterest Facebook. Up Next Cancel. By Chris Harris chrisharrisment. Trial ; de Camp On the second day, Monday, July 13, the Reverend M. Moffett was asked to lead in prayer. The indictment was discussed at length, and a motion by Dr. Neal to quash it failed. The prominent speakers on this day were Dr. Neal, General Stewart, and Clarence Darrow, the last of whom concluded the day with a speech on freedom that takes up 13 of the 42 pages of the trial record for this day.
When Judge Raulston called on the Reverend Dr. Stribling to begin in prayer on the third day, Tuesday, July 14, Clarence Darrow objected to the practice and to the jury being present at the discussion of the matter. After heated discussion on both sides, the judge overruled in favor of opening the court with prayer. Court was then adjourned for much of the day in order to allow the judge to formulate a decision regarding the question raised on day two about the constitutionality of the law and the motion to quash the indictment.
Charles Francis Potter, the Unitarian minister from New York who assisted the defense as an expert on religion. Judge Raulston then read his lengthy and carefully worded decision about the motion to quash the indictment. Finding the indictment adequately clear and the law appropriate in its relation to freedom of thought and expression, Raulston overruled the motion.
In the afternoon session, Scopes pleaded not guilty. Then the prosecution called the following witnesses: Superintendent of Schools Walter White; school board chairman F. Scopes at the time of the May 25th hearing and Darrow at the time of the trial both coached some of the prospective student witnesses on the details of evolution so they would appear to have learned the subject from Scopes. Darrow, in fact, roomed at the home of one witness, Howard Morgan Allem 66; de Camp ; Scopes In the entire long trial, these were the only witnesses whose testimony was part of the official record.
Ironically Scopes could have avoided a criminal trial with its possible conviction and loss of a job by taking advantage of his status as a professional educator, questioning the constitutionality of the anti-evolution law, and asking for a declaratory judgment Larson For their first witness, the defense team called Johns Hopkins University zoologist Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf Trial In number of days but not in dramatic and legal high points, the trial was at the fifth-day halfway mark on Thursday, July 16, when the Reverend Dr.
Allen of Nashville was named to open the court session with prayer. Sue Hicks, B. McKenzie, Darrow, and Neal joined the heated discussion. Bryan then turned the tables on Darrow by using against him his argument in the Leopold and Loeb murder case.
Legal technicians Stewart and Hays finished out the day of stirring speeches by debating on principles of interpretation. Stewart pointed out that the intent of the legislature rather than individual words such as and in the Butler Bill was the rule in Tennessee for interpretation Trial Eastwood to pray before the sixth and shortest day of the trial, which was on Friday, July Judge John Raulston began by summarizing in clear and careful detail the arguments of the prosecution and the defense on the important matter of the admission of expert testimony presented the day before.
Then he sustained the motion of the attorney general to exclude expert testimony. After a lengthy discussion, Raulston agreed to allow the defense to include the expert testimony but in the absence of the jury , to read it into the record though the judge and the prosecution preferred that time be saved by simply submitting it in written affidavit form , to protect it from cross-examination though Bryan requested this privilege , and to give the defense a recess of the rest of the day to prepare documents that the defense lawyers could read into the record though the judge preferred direct dictation from the witnesses, and the prosecution was unhappy at losing so much time.
The evaluation of trial historian L. But without comment at a. Though there had been some dramatic and interesting spots, the trial proceedings up to this point had been long, technical, and uninteresting to the average layman. The worldwide audience coverage continued, but the audience in and about the courtroom began to thin out.
On Saturday, July 18, the exodus began: H. Thompson headed to Florida, W. Bryan, Jr. Monday, July 20, the seventh day of the trial, began hot and was to get hotter both in weather conditions and word confrontations. The opening prayer was delivered by the Reverend Standefer. After lengthy discussion taking up ten pages of the court record and similar to that on day six, Arthur Garfield Hays was finally permitted to summarize and read verbatim into the record twelve written testimonials of the scientific and Biblical experts the defense had congregated.
The reading took the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon. In order of presentation, statements from the following were inserted in the record but not as an official part of the trial as far as the jury and cross-examination were concerned but as indications of what the defense proof would have been, should the case go to a higher court in the appeal process:.
The documents ranged from one to eighteen pages. Charles H. In between the statements by Dr. Curtis and Dr. Rosenwasser, the court recessed for lunch. Judge Raulston inspected cracks in the first-floor ceiling caused by the weight of the crowd upstairs. Stewart conferred with the defense and arranged for Darrow to apologize to the court. After the recess, Darrow apologized grudgingly but sufficiently to satisfy the big-hearted judge, who quoted Scripture and forgave Darrow.
Because of the building stress, the heat, and the crowd, Judge Raulston reconvened the court on a platform in the courtyard below. The heat, the boredom of the expert testimonials being read by Hays, and the dim prospects of anything important or exciting happening from this point on tempted all but a half dozen of the more than one hundred reporters either to go back home or seek cooler, more inviting surroundings that afternoon.
As a result they missed not only the cooler court setup of being out under the trees but also one of the hottest exchanges of the entire trial. Because so few reporters were present when Bryan took the stand to be interrogated by Darrow, Scopes was conscripted to write covering news stories for the delinquent newsmen Scopes Much of the Scopes Trial news coverage in and ever since leaves a great deal to be desired.
On the lowest level there was character assassination.
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