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Aug 12, 2023 · Read summaries of cases involving topics such as elements of a crime, homicide, rape, attempt, conspiracy, self-defense, and criminal trials and sentencing.
Aug 5, 2022 · in argued and non-argument cases and Orders; certiorari grants for the upcoming Term; a chart of “Who Wrote What;” and a brief Overview of the Term, regarding all Criminal Law-and-related cases before the U.S. Supreme Court October 2021 Term (Oct. 2021-August 2022) (with clickable links to the cases). © Rory Little August 2022 San Francisco CA
Dec 8, 2020 · By Jason S. Cherry, J.D. Of the 63 cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2019–2020 term, there were several criminal and civil law cases that could affect the investigative and...
Criminal Trials & Prosecutions Supreme Court Cases. A defendant in a criminal prosecution faces the potential loss of their liberty. In addition to basic due process protections, defendants have certain rights under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, including: Speedy and public trial. Trial by an impartial jury. Assistance of counsel.
- O.J. Simpson
- Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
- Beltway Snipers
- D.B. Cooper Skyjacking
- The Zodiac Killings
- Watergate
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Unabomber
- Jodi Arias
- Casey Anthony
In what’s still probably considered the most-watched criminal case ever, Pro Football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the brutal murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, a waiter at a local restaurant. From the time Simpson was declared a suspect to the day the jury delivered its verdict, Americans from c...
Believed to have been taken from his nursery bed while he slept, the infant son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was found dead about two months after going missing from his family’s New Jersey home. An enormous investigation proceeded into the death with public suspicion falling at various points on several different people connected to the fami...
Over the course of about three weeks during the fall of 2002, more than a dozen people had been mysteriously shot by an unknown sniper in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. On one single day during the spree, Oct. 3, five people were murdered by the sniper in Maryland and D.C. Eventually, the massive manhunt ballooned to include 400 FBI agents. Lee Boyd...
In a case that remains unsolved to this day, a man who said his name was Dan Cooper hijacked a flight bound for Seattle in November 1971, jumping out of the plain with a parachute on his back and the ransom money he’d demanded and gotten in his arms. While the case has captivated the public imagination, nobody has ever faced charges in the case, an...
We know Ted Cruz isn’t the Zodiac killer, but to this day, authorities have yet to charge any individual with any of the murders attributed to the Zodiac. Operating in northern California at various times in the 1960s and 1970s, between seven and 30 murders are attributed to the Zodiac. The murders remain the source of public fascination, and autho...
When a 1972 break-in was reported at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C., few people could have predicted where the investigation would lead. When all was said and done, multiple individuals were in jail and President Richard Nixon left office in disgrace.
The gruesome discovery of the body of a young woman sliced in half at the waist became a national obsession, as both the Los Angeles police and the FBI interviewed dozens of suspects across the country to find the killer or killers of Elizabeth Short. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia by the L.A. press, Short was a 22-year-old aspiring actress when she wa...
Once a well-respected math prodigy, Ted Kaczynski came to national prominence thanks to a series of bombings that killed three people and injured nearly two-dozen others. About 16 bombs have been attributed to Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole and remains incarcerated at a supermax p...
Over the course of a five-month trial, much of which was broadcast on television, Jodi Arias was convicted of the brutal 2013 slaying of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, who had been both stabbed and shot. Arias alleges she killed Alexander in self-defense, but a jury took just 15 hours to decide that Arias was guilty of premeditated murder. She wa...
The day after she reported her daughter, Caylee, missing in 2008, Casey Anthony was arrested for child neglect and the following day, authorities say cadaver dogs picked up the scent of human flesh in Anthony’s car. In a trial broadcast nearly every day on cable TV, Anthony was acquitted in the death of her young daughter, though she was found guil...
Dec 14, 2014 · Criminal Law Defined and Explained with Examples. Criminal Law: the laws, statutes, and rules that define acts as crimes, and establishes punishments for each. Legal Dictionary
Black Dahlia. The 1947 murder of a 22-year-old Hollywood hopeful in Los Angeles has never been solved. More →. Brink’s Robbery. A 1950 robbery of a Brinks bank in Boston by men in masks sets of a...
