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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.
The third trial, in March 1938, known as The Trial of the Twenty-One, is the last of the Soviet Union trials. It included 21 defendants alleged to belong to the so-called "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites": Nikolai Bukharin – Marxist theoretician, former head of the Communist International and member of the Politburo
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.
The trial had initially been seen as a showcase for Francis’ reforms and his willingness to crack down on alleged financial misdeeds in the Vatican, which long had a reputation as an offshore ...
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]
Flemington's claim to fame is that it was the site of the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial, also known as the “Trial of the Century." ... Saturday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. (rain date is Sunday, Sept ...
Pope Francis, right, and Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, center, are seen during the canonization mass of two new saints in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on October 9, 2022.
In his annotated edition of the trial transcript, Ellis explores the intertwining of personal and professional relationships among the figures prominent in the case and the trial. He noted that late 20th and early 21st-century professional standards related to conflict of interest would likely classify certain figures as having violated those ...