When it comes to his current day-to-day duties, he said the notable trials of his past were "an irrelevancy".
Other notable trials in which Labori was concerned were the prosecution of Émile Zola for libel (1898), which arose out of the Dreyfus case, and the Humbert affair (1902).
But today, the Supreme Court found that Judge Tierney had carefully instructed the jurors and that media coverage of the Kelly case was far less disruptive than in other notable trials, including that of Dr. Sam Sheppard for murder in Cleveland.
He was already a senior judge when he was given charge of a notable trial after an incident on a stormy night in 1980 when a freighter rammed, and wrecked, the Sunshine Skyway bridge over Tampa Bay, killing 35 people whose cars plunged into the water.
Another notable trial in Amarillo includes the Fort Worth-area murder case of T. Cullen Davis, which involved one of the richest men in the United States, his former wife, and her daughter and boyfriend.
He became a full-time writer in the 1970s, editing the Celebrated Trials series, successor to Notable British Trials, and then in the 1980s numerous anthologies, such as the The Railway Murders (1984) and The Seaside Murders (1985), often persuading his many friends to provide a chapter and then writing a short introduction.
An account of the trial was edited by Jesse for the Notable British Trials series, and, as she makes clear in her introduction, unease over Thompson's fate played a role in the fact that, this time, the verdict returned was Not Guilty.
And in the past year, several notable clinical trials of new drugs have failed, leaving nothing new on the immediate horizon.
A walnut cabinet housed her collection of Staffordshire figures, and one bookcase held a complete set of "Notable British Trials".
Her study Murder and its Motives remains a fascinating read; she edited six of the volumes in the electrifying Notable British Trials series, and her introductions are among some of its most memorable.
This was Teignmouth Shore's The Baccarat Case, published in the Notable British Trials series and incorporating a full transcript of the case.
