Once upon a time, " trial by fire" was a literal trial , with literal fire. The idea was that if an accus... ...would save the truly innocent. These were called trial by ordeal, and in some ways it made sense.Of cour... ...e, the system was far from foolproof; many of the *...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/20/A-History-of-Trial-By-Ordeal/
A punch during bar brawl in 2011 caused John Hutti... ..."unfortunate, unforeseen incident," and set a new trial date for March 4th. Link -via Arbroath
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/08/Mistrial-Declared-When-Victims-Eyeball-Falls-Out/(YouTube link) Former county commissioner Jimmy... ...k) Former county commissioner Jimmy Dimora is on trial in Akron, Ohio, for corruption. Channel 19 is cov... ...Ohio, for corruption. Channel 19 is covering the trial , but are not allowed to take cameras into the fed...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/19/puppets-court/
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was a million-dollar m... ...at happened in court, Arbuckle also went through " trial by newspaper." Find out what happened to Fatty Ar...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/15/the-skinny-on-the-fatty-arbuckle-trial/
This week, mental_floss is running a series about Abraham Lincoln's adventures as a young man, before he got into politics. In part one, we learn about a murder in Illinois. What does that have to do with Lincoln? We f...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/16/abraham-lincoln-wrestler-and-lawyer/
by Seth Jarndyl, Improbable Research staff What... ...regularly required of witnesses in a formal legal trial ? I believe the answer is: 374 words, in the lega...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/13/the-374-word-oath/
The blogger New Jovian Thunderbolt offers this nov... ...ng along its own path. Britain didn't overturn trial by combat until after we declared independence.... ...No American court has really addressed it. Ergo, trial by combat may still be legitimate under U.S. Law....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/20/is-trial-by-combat-still-legal-in-the-united-states/
Clara Tang is going down in the history books. ... ...ently the oldest woman on record ordered to stand trial for murder in Australia. She is 92. After almo... ...onfessed to the murder. Is 92 too old to stand trial for murder? Is there a point where the cost of...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/02/a-92-year-old-woman-to-stand-trial-for-murder/
A man is accused of a crime. Is he guilty? Stick... ...is is the basic premise of the legal tradition of trial by ordeal, discredited since the Enlightenment.... ...st Peter T. Leeson says "yes": How might these trials have worked, without divine intervention? The key... ...nds in boiling water. So pries...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/did-trial-by-ordeal-actually-work/
A look back at the most interesting court cases of... ...t 100 years.During the 20th century, a so-called " trial of the century" occurred every few years, fueled... ...styles or good old-fashioned revenge. Here are 20 trials that have, at one time or another, been deemed th... ...ne time or another, been dee...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/20-trials-of-the-century-of-the-20th-century/
