Pre-1800 Trials
Gaius Verres Trial (70 B.C.)
Joan of Arc Trial (1431)
Martin Luther Trial (1521)
Giordano Bruno Trials (1592 &1600)
John Lilburne Trials (1638 & 1653)
Trial of Charles I (1641)
The Great "Negro Plot" Trials (1741)
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Trials (1792 & 1793)
Trials 1800-1899
Impeachment Trial of Justice Samuel Chase (1805)
Carthage Conspiracy ("Joseph Smith Murder") Trial (1844)
Dr. John Webster Trial (1850)
State of Missouri v Celia, A Slave (1855)
Dred Scott Trial (1856)
Henry Wirz Trial (1865)
U. S. v Cruikshank (1875)
Charles Guiteau Trial (1881)(assassin of President Garfield)
Alfred Dreyfus Trials (1894 & 1899)
Hermann Mudgett Trial (1895)
Trials 1900-1949
Henry Thaw Trials (1907-08)
Clarence Darrow Trial (1912)
Leo Frank Trial (1913)
Joe Hill Trial (1914)
Mohandas Gandhi Trial (1917)
Fatty Arbuckle Trial (1921-22)
Adolf Hitler Trial (1924)
Billy Mitchell Court-Martial (1925)
Al Capone Trial (1931)
Massie ("Honor Killing") Trials (1931-32)
Moscow Purge Trials (1936-38)
Vidkun Quisling Trial (1945)
Ezra Pound Trial (1946)
Tokyo War Crimes Trials (1946-48)
Bill Tilden Trials (1947-48)
Hollywood Ten Trial (1948-50)
Trials 1950 to Present
Brown v Board of Education (1951)
New York Times v Sullivan Trial (1960)
Nelson Mandela Trial (1963-64)
Daniel Ellsberg ("Pentagon Papers") Trial (1972-73)
Randall Adams Trial (1977)
Vaclav Havel Trials (1977-79)
Falwell v Flynt Trial (1984)
Cipollone v Liggett Group (1988)
Mapplethorpe Obscenity Trial (1990)
Manuel Noriega Trial (1991)
Tiananmen Square Dissidents Trial (1991)
John Gotti Trial (1992)
West Memphis Three Trials (1994)
Jack Kervorkian Trials (1994-99)
Lay/Skilling (Enron) Trial (2006)
Saddam Hussein Trial (2006)
Trials most likely to be added first are in BOLD.
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