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