| Table of Contents |
| | Preface | |
| | Introduction | |
| | Anne Hutchinson Trials [1637 & 1638] | 1 |
| | Dorothy Talbye Trial [1638] | 6 |
| | Judith Catchpole Trial [1656] | 8 |
| | Mary Dyer Trials [1659 & 1660] | 10 |
| | Nicholas More Impeachment [1685] | 13 |
| | Jacob Leisler Trial [1691] | 15 |
| | Salem Witchcraft Trials [1692] | 18 |
| | John Peter Zenger Trial [1735] | 23 |
| | "Great Negro Plot" Trial [1741] | 29 |
| | Writs of Assistance Trial [1761] | 32 |
| | Parsons' Cause Trial [1763] | 35 |
| | Boston Massacre Trials [1770] | 39 |
| | Sergeant Thomas Hickey Court-Martial [1776] | 48 |
| | Penhallow v. The Lusanna [1777] | 50 |
| | Major John Andre Trial [1780] | 53 |
| | Quock Walker Trials [1781-83] | 58 |
| | Alien and Sedition Acts [1798] | 61 |
| | John Fries Trials [1799] | 65 |
| | Marbury v. Madison [1803] | 68 |
| | Samuel Chase Impeachment [1805] | 72 |
| | George Sweeney Trial [1806] | 75 |
| | Aaron Burr Trial [1807] | 78 |
| | John Francis Knapp and Joseph Jenkins Knapp Trials [1830] | 83 |
| | Cherokee Nation v. Georgia [1831] | 88 |
| | U.S. v. Cinque [1839] | 91 |
| | Alexander Holmes Trial [1842] | 95 |
| | Mackenzie Court-Martial [1843] | 98 |
| | Albert Tirrell Trial [1846] | 101 |
| | Dr. John Webster Trial [1850] | 105 |
| | State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave [1855] | 109 |
| | Dred Scott Decision [1856] | 114 |
| | Emma Cunningham Trial [1857] | 120 |
| | "Duff" Armstrong Trial [1858] | 124 |
| | Daniel Sickles Trial [1859] | 127 |
| | John Brown Trial [1859] | 133 |
| | Packard v. Packard [1864] | 138 |
| | Dr. Samuel Mudd Trial [1865] | 142 |
| | Henry Wirz Trial [1865] | 146 |
| | President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial [1868] | 150 |
| | Hester Vaughan Trial [1868] | 155 |
| | Ex Parte McCardle [1868] | 158 |
| | Boss Tweed Trials [1873] | 162 |
| | U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony [1873] | 166 |
| | Tilton v. Beecher [1875] | 171 |
| | U.S. v. Cruikshank [1875] | 175 |
| | Martinez v. Del Valle [1877] | 180 |
| | Reynolds v. U.S. [1879] | 183 |
| | Charles Guiteau Trial [1881] | 187 |
| | Yick Wo v. Hopkins [1886] | 192 |
| | Haymarket Trial [1886] | 194 |
| | New Orleans "Mafia" Trial [1891] | 199 |
| | Lizzie Borden Trial [1893] | 204 |
| | In Re Debs [1895] | 209 |
| | Theo Durrant Trial [1895] | 214 |
| | Plessy v. Ferguson [1896] | 218 |
| | Roland Molineux Trials [1899] | 221 |
| | Leon Czolgosz Trial [1901] | 225 |
| | Albert Patrick Trial [1902] | 228 |
| | Captain William Van Schaick Trial [1906] | 231 |
| | Chester Gillette Trial [1906] | 234 |
| | Harry Thaw Trials [1907-08] | 239 |
| | William "Big Bill" Haywood Trial [1907] | 244 |
| | Dr. Hyde Trial [1910] | 248 |
| | McNamara Brothers Trial [1911] | 251 |
| | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial [1911] | 255 |
| | Floyd Allen Trial [1912] | 260 |
| | Charles Becker Trials [1912-14] | 262 |
| | Leo Frank Trial [1913] | 267 |
| | Joe Hill Trial [1914] | 273 |
| | Tom Mooney Trial [1917] | 276 |
| | Trials of Alice Paul and Other National Women's Party Members [1917] | 281 |
| | Schenck v. U.S. Appeal [1919] | 284 |
| | Sacco-Vanzetti Trial [1921] | 288 |
| | "Fatty" Arbuckle Trials [1921-22] | 294 |
| | Moore et al. v. Dempsey Appeal [1923] | 300 |
| | Marcus Mosiah Garvey Trial [1923] | 304 |
| | Leopold and Loeb Trial [1924] | 307 |
| | John Thomas Scopes Trial (The "Monkey Trial") [1925] | 312 |
| | Billy Mitchell Court-Martial [1925] | 319 |
| | D.C. Stephenson Trial [1925] | 323 |
| | Frances Hall, Henry Stevens, and William Stevens Trial [1926] | 327 |
| | Teapot Dome Trials [1926-30] | 332 |
| | Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray Trial [1927] | 338 |
| | Buck v. Bell [1927] | 342 |
| | Alexander Pantages Trials [1929] | 348 |
| | Scottsboro Trials [1931-37] | 351 |
| | Al Capone Trial [1931] | 357 |
| | Thomas Massie Trial [1932] | 361 |
| | Joseph Zangara Trial [1933] | 366 |
| | Ulysses Trial [1933] | 368 |
| | Berrett-Molway Trial [1934] | 372 |
| | Gloria Vanderbilt Custody Trial [1934] | 376 |
| | Samuel Insull Trial [1934] | 381 |
| | Bruno Richard Hauptmann Trial [1935] | 386 |
| | Vera Stretz Trial [1936] | 393 |
| | Charles "Lucky" Luciano Trial [1936] | 397 |
| | Mary Astor Divorce Trial [1936] | 400 |
| | Martin T. Manton Trial [1939] | 403 |
| | Murder, Inc. Trials [1941] | 406 |
| | Errol Flynn Trial [1943] | 410 |
| | Eddie Slovik Court-Martial [1944] | 413 |
| | Ex Parte Endo Trial [1944] | 417 |
| | Ezra Pound Trial [1946] | 421 |
| | Sally Rand Trial [1946] | 425 |
| | Bercovici v. Chaplin [1947] | 428 |
| | Caryl Chessman Trial [1948] | 431 |
| | Hollywood Ten Trials [1948-50] | 435 |
| | Alger Hiss Trials [1949-50] | 441 |
| | Martha Beck Trial [1949] | 447 |
| | Tokyo Rose Trial [1949] | 450 |
| | Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell [1951] | 452 |
| | Dennis v. U.S. Appeal [1951] | 458 |
| | Reynolds v. Pegler [1954] | 462 |
| | Brown v. Board of Education [1954] | 466 |
| | Samuel Sheppard Trials [1954 & 1966] | 471 |
| | Burton Abbott Trial [1955] | 475 |
| | Cheryl Christina Crane Inquest [1958] | 478 |
| | Raymond Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff Trials [1960 & 1961] | 482 |
| | Richard Hickock and Perry Smith Trial [1960] | 487 |
| | Boynton v. Virginia [1960] | 491 |
| | Clarence Earl Gideon Trials [1961 & 1963] | 494 |
| | John Henry Faulk v. Aware, Inc., et al. [1962] | 498 |
| | Ernesto Miranda Trials [1963 & 1967] | 505 |
| | Georgetown College v. Jones [1963] | 509 |
| | U.S. v. Hoffa [1964] | 512 |
| | New York Times Company v. Sullivan [1964] | 517 |
| | Griswold v. Connecticut [1964] | 520 |
| | Lenny Bruce Trial [1964] | 525 |
| | Whitmore Confessions and Richard Robles Trial [1965] | 529 |
| | Collie Leroy Wilkins Trial [1965] | 533 |
| | Candace Mossler and Melvin Lane Powers Trial [1966] | 537 |
| | Carl Anthony Coppolino Trials [1966 & 1967] | 542 |
| | Albert Henry DeSalvo Trial [1967] | 547 |
| | Richard Franklin Speck Trial [1967] | 552 |
| | Price and Bowers Trial [1967] | 556 |
| | Alice Crimmins Trials [1968 & 1971] | 559 |
| | John Marshall Branion Trial [1968] | 564 |
| | Huey P. Newton Trial [1968] | 568 |
| | U.S. v. Berrigan [1968] | 574 |
| | Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Trial [1969] | 578 |
| | Clay Shaw Trial [1969] | 582 |
| | Chicago Seven Trial [1969] | 586 |
| | Charles Manson Trial [1970-71] | 591 |
| | William Calley Court-Martial [1970] | 598 |
| | John Hill Trial [1971] | 602 |
| | New York Times Company v. U.S. [1971] | 607 |
| | Angela Davis Trial [1972] | 612 |
| | Furman v. Georgia [1972] | 616 |
| | Roe et al. v. Wade [1973] | 620 |
| | Tony Boyle Trial [1974] | 628 |
| | U.S. v. Nixon [1974] | 632 |
| | Joan Little Trial [1975] | 638 |
| | In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan [1975] | 641 |
| | Patty Hearst Trial [1976] | 646 |
| | Theodore Robert Bundy Trials [1976 & 1979] | 652 |
| | Gary Mark Gilmore Trial [1976] | 657 |
| | Randall Adams Trial [1977] | 659 |
| | Marvin Mandel Trial [1977] | 662 |
| | Collin v. Smith [1977] | 665 |
| | "Son of Sam" Trial [1978] | 668 |
| | Bakke v. University of California . . . Appeal [1978] | 672 |
| | Marvin v. Marvin "Palimony" Suit [1979] | 676 |
| | Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee [1979] | 680 |
| | U.S. v. The Progressive [1979] | 683 |
| | Daniel James White Trial [1979] | 686 |
| | Jeffrey Robert MacDonald Trial [1979] | 690 |
| | U.S. v. Snepp Appeal [1980] | 696 |
| | ABSCAM Trials [1980 & 1981] | 699 |
| | Jean Harris Trial [1980-81] | 704 |
| | John Demjanjuk Denaturalization Trial [1981] | 709 |
| | Wayne Williams Trial [1981] | 712 |
| | Jack Henry Abbott Trial [1982] | 715 |
| | Claus Von Bulow Trials [1982 & 1985] | 718 |
| | John Hinckley Trial [1982] | 723 |
| | Pulitzer Divorce Trial [1982] | 727 |
| | Weatherman Brinks Trials [1983] | 730 |
| | New Bedford Rape Trial [1984] | 733 |
| | Westmoreland v. CBS [1984] | 738 |
| | Falwell v. Flynt [1984] | 741 |
| | In the Matter of Baby M [1987] | 744 |
| | Bernhard Goetz Trial [1987] | 750 |
| | Cipollone v. Liggett Group [1988] | 754 |
| | Joel Steinberg Trial [1988-89] | 757 |
| | Oliver North Trial [1989] | 762 |
| | Texas v. Johnson [1989] | 766 |
| | U.S. v. Helmsley [1989] | 768 |
| | Jim Bakker Trial [1989] | 772 |
| | Pete Rose Trial [1990] | 775 |
| | Marion Barry Trial [1990] | 779 |
| | Central Park Jogger Rape Trials [1990] | 782 |
| | Mapplethorpe Obscenity Trial [1990] | 787 |
| | Carolyn Warmus Trials [1991 & 1992] | 790 |
| | Pamela Smart Trial [1991] | 794 |
| | Manuel Noriega Trial [1991] | 798 |
| | El Sayyid Nosair Trial [1991] | 802 |
| | Charles Keating Trials [1991-93] | 806 |
| | William Kennedy Smith Trial [1991] | 811 |
| | John Gotti Trial [1992] | 816 |
| | Mike Tyson Trial [1992] | 821 |
| | Los Angeles Police Officers' Trial [1992 & 1993] | 824 |
| | Glossary | 829 |
| | Index | 835 |
