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Significant Court Cases in American History
Historically
Significant Court Cases in
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1692Salem
Witchcraft Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
1735John
Peter Zenger
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html
1741Negro
Plot Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/negroplot/plot1741home.html
1770Boston
Massacre Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/
bostonmassacre.html
1807Burr
Conspiracy Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/
burr/burrtrial.html
1839Amistad
Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMISTD.HTM
1859John
Brown Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownhome.html
1862Dakota
Conflict Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dakota.html
1865Lincoln
Assassination Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnconspiracy.html
1865Henry
Wirz Trial (Andersonville Prison)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Wirz/Wirz.htm
1868Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/impeachmt.htm
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/
1873Susan
B. Anthony Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbahome.html
1881Charles
Guiteau Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/guiteau/guiteauhomelite.html
1886Haymarket
Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/Haymarke.htm
1893Lizzie
Borden Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/LizzieBorden/bordenhome.html
1907Bill
Haywood Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/haywood.htm
1907Harry
Thaw Trials (Stanford White Murder)
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/thaw/thawhome.html
1907Sheriff
Joseph Shipp Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/shipp.html
1911Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
1913Leo
Frank Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/frank/frankmain.html
1921Black
Sox Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksox.html
1921Sacco
and Vanzetti
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm
1921Fatty
Arbuckle Trials
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/arbuckle/arbucklelinks.html
1924Leopold
and Loeb
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm
1925Scopes
Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
1925Sweet
Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sweet/sweet.html
1931Scottsboro
Boys
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
1935Richard Hauptmann
(Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Hauptmann/Hauptmann.htm
1945Nuremberg
Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
1949Alger
Hiss Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss_links.html
1951Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM
1954Sam
Sheppard Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/Sheppard.htm
1967Mississippi
Burning Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm
1969Chicago
7 Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
1970My
Lai Courtmartial of Lieutenant William Calley
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm
1970Charles
Manson Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/manson.html
1976Patty
Hearst Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hearst/hearsthome.html
1977Randall
Adams Thin Blue Line Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rdadams_links.html
1977Leonard
Peltier Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Peltier.html
1982John
Hinckley, Jr., Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/hinckleytrial.html
1987McMartin
Preschool Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartin.html
1987Bernhard
Goetz Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/goetz/goetzhome.html
1988Kelly
Michaels Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Michaels.html
1991William
Kennedy Smith Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/KennedySmith.html
1992Rodney
King Beating Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/lapd.html
1993Ruby Ridge (Weaver) Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/weaver/weaverhome.html
1994West Memphis Three Trials
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/memphis3/memphis3home.html
1995O.J.
Simpson Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/simpson.htm
1997Oklahoma City Bombing Trial (Timothy McVeigh)
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/mcveightrial.html
1999Clinton Impeachment Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/clinton/clintonhome.html
2006Trial of Zacarias Moussaoui
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/moussaoui/moussaouihome.html
2006Enron (Lay and Skilling) Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/enron/enronhome.html
2013George Zimmerman (Trayvon Martin) Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zimmerman1/zimmermantrial.html
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