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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 Encyclopedia Britannica noted:
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
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 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 ...
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.
The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against " Trotskyists " and members of the " Right Opposition " of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
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