A client of mine who was acquitted had her picture on the front of a newspaper just before her trial headlined "Woman of terror", but urgent phone calls to the attorney general's office still elicited no response or reprimand to the newspaper concerned.
He also endured a prejudicial "trial by headline," orchestrated largely by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst.
Some reveled in seeing a powerful man laid low; others saw the news media's intense coverage as an unfair spectacle, a trial by headline.
Lent a soapy sizzle by showrunner Ryan Murphy, the series captured the trial's headline moments: the glove; Mark Fuhrman's racist remarks; Marcia Clark's lampooned hairdos; "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit"; and most famously, Simpson's attempt to avoid arrest in a white Ford Bronco.
The Howl trial made headline news and put one more nail into the coffin of censorship, after the ACLU and renowned San Francisco attorney Jake Ehrlich successfully defended the book (while Ginsberg was already confessing to Ferlinghetti "To tell you the truth I am already embarrassed by half of it").
The trial grabbed headlines for weeks and produced scientific research that holds up to this day — yet generated no federal limits for caffeine in foods and beverages.
A trial with headlines that would put the phrase "investment losses" in the same sentence as Merrill Lynch would only rekindle much of this bad publicity just as it was beginning to die out.
The Calgary trial made headlines around the world after it emerged that Camp had repeatedly asked the 19-year-old complainant why she hadn't done more to prevent the alleged rape.
The twists and turns in the Polly Peck saga, and Mr Nadir's flight to Turkish-Cypriot northern Cyprus to evade trial, made headlines in Britain in the early 1990s.EBay banned the sale of spells, curses, hexing, conjuring, magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions and healing sessions from its website.
The ensuing trial made headlines around the world; more than a matter of guilt or innocence, it seemed a referendum on the spiritualist worldview, and Manseau offers a gripping account of the many witnesses who appeared to laud Mumler's powers or to deride him as a grifter.
