Event class: trial, murder, case, court, charges, guilty, jury, judge, death, convicted

Events with high posterior probability

Joseph Reinach	At the time of the original trial, he attempted to secure a public hearing of the case, and, in 1897, he allied himself with Auguste Scheurer-Kestner to demand its revision.
William Hepburn Russell	However, on December 1, 1860, Bailey confessed to Floyd and was arrested and brought to trial along with Russell.
Bernhard Goetz	In his closing summation to the jury, prosecutor Gregory Waples conceded :, 1985, and arraigned on four charges of attempted murder, with bail set at $ 50,000.
Michael Stone (murderer)	The crime received a great deal of publicity and in July 1997 police arrested and charged thirty-seven-year-old Michael Stone with the crimes.
Oscar Neebe	On June 26, 1893 Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned Neebe and two of his co-defendants, having concluded that they were innocent.
David Napley	However, in June 1978 Napley telephoned Carman to tell him that the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Jeremy Thorpe, was probably going to be committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to murder and that he was going to retain him.
Lon Horiuchi	In 1997, Boundary County, Idaho Prosecutor Denise Woodbury, with the help of special prosecutor Stephen Yagman, charged Horiuchi in state court with involuntary manslaughter over his killing of Vicki Weaver.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald	On July 29, 1975, District Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr. denied MacDonald's double jeopardy and speedy trial arguments and allowed the trial date of August 18, 1975 to stand.
Allan Legere	Legere's trial featured the first Canadian uses of DNA fingerprinting, and Legere was convicted of murder for a second time in 1991.
Dave Holland (drummer)	In 2004, Holland was found guilty of attempted rape and several indecent assaults against a mentally ill 17-year-old male to whom he had been giving drum lessons.
George Banks	May 12, 2010, Banks was declared incompetent to be executed by Luzerne County Judge Joseph Augello following a week long competency hearing held the previous month.
Joseph E. Duncan III	Duncan first appeared in a Kootenai County court on July 13, 2005, where he was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first degree kidnapping, all in conjunction with the deaths of Brenda and Slade Groene and Mark McKenzie.
Hunter S. Thompson	Part of his work with The Fourth Amendment Foundation centered around support of Lisl Auman, a Colorado woman who was sentenced for life in 1997 under felony murder charges for the death of police officer Bruce VanderJagt, despite contradictory statements and dubious evidence.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald	On April 30, 1974, after much persistence in pursuing the prosecution of MacDonald, Alfred and Mildred Kassab, aided by Peter Kearns, and the Kassabs' attorney Richard C. Cahn of Huntington, NY, presented a citizen's criminal complaint against Jeffrey MacDonald to U. S. Chief District Court Judge Algernon Butler, requesting the convening of a grand jury to indict MacDonald for the three murders.
Hank Skinner	On November 14, 2012, the Texas Attorney General released a statement indicating that Skinner's DNA, and that of an unknown contributor, was found on the bloody knife on the front porch.
Mary Ann Cotton	She was charged with his murder, although the trial was delayed until after the delivery of her last child in Durham Gaol on 10 January 1873, whom she named Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Cotton.
Bruce Johnston (criminal)	Bruce Mowday, a Chester County reporter who covered the Johnstons' trials for the West Chester (Pa.) Daily Local News, wrote Jailing the Johnston Gang : Bringing Serial Murders to Justice in 2009.
Kirk Bloodsworth	In 2003, nearly a decade after Bloodsworth's release, prisoner DNA evidence added to state and federal databases identified the real killer, Kimberly Shay Ruffner.
John Allen Muhammad	On May 30, 2006, a Maryland jury found John Allen Muhammad guilty of six counts of murder in Maryland.
Willem van Eijk	After going through a series of other lawyers, Van Eijk was sentenced, on 7 November 2002, to life imprisonment for the murder of the last three victims.
Clay Shaw	On March 1, 1969 Shaw was acquitted less than one hour after the case went to the jury.
Kenny Richey	Richey's second trial was scheduled to commence at Putnam County Common Pleas Court on March 28, 2008.
Donald Ray Wallace	Wallace, who was 22-years old when he committed the capital crime, was sentenced to death on October 21, 1982.
Danny Bonaduce	On October 5, 2007, the L. A. District Attorney's office concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove Bonaduce had committed a battery, because the contact had been initiated by Dalton and Bonaduce had acted in self-defense.
Billy Gohl	Gohl had already been arrested in February 1910 and sentenced to life imprisonment Besides Hatberg, the second count was for the murder of John Hoffman, a witness to the Hatberg murder who was shot and injured by Gohl on the night of the murder, and killed the next day by Klingenberg, for which he was sentenced to 20 years.)
Lance Ito	In 1992, he presided over Charles H. Keating Jr.'s trial in the savings and loan scandal ; Keating's 10-year sentence was later overturned on appeal because Ito had neglected to instruct the jury to determine whether Keating intended to defraud investors.
Aaron Dwight Stevens	George H. Hoyt, Brown's counsel, in a letter to J. W. Le Barnes, October 31, 1859, thus recorded his first impression of Stevens :'' Stevens is in the same cell with Brown.
Humberto Leal Garcia	The administration submitted a 30-page Huntsville Unit, where Leal was executed After 16 years of appeals, Leal was executed by lethal injection at 6:21 pm C. S. T. on July 7, 2011.
Alton Coleman	His partner in crime, Debra Denise Brown, was originally slated to be executed in Ohio, but in 1991 her death sentence was commuted to life in prison by Governor Richard Celeste.
Regino C. Hermosisima, Jr.	In his 177 pages decision dated September 28, 1990, Hermosisima, Jr.'s Sandiganbayan found the said accused guilty as principals of the crime of murder in both Criminal Cases Nos. 10010 and 10011, and he sentenced them to reclusion perpetua in each case.
William Bonin	Bonin was brought to trial in Los Angeles County, charged with the murder of 12 of his victims whose bodies had been found within this constituency, on November 5, 1981.
Kevin Cooper (inmate)	The tests suggested that there is'' strong evidence'' that it was Kevin Cooper's DNA that was extracted from the following items of evidence : Cooper was scheduled to be executed on February 10, 2004, but his execution was postponed only hours before it was to take place to allow for further DNA testing.
Alicia Ross	In the end, after three hours and 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury was beyond a reasonable doubt in their decision that Sylvester either intended to kill his next-door neighbour Ross between their Markham houses on Aug. 17, 2005, or that he had used force he knew could kill her and acted reckless in allowing the death to happen.
Chuck Hobbs	In September 2008, Bradshaw and his brother in law Andrea Green were indicted for First Degree Murder and the state filed notice of seeking the death penalty for both men.
Baby M	In 1987, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey R. Sorkow formally validated the surrogacy contract and awarded custody of Baby M to the Sterns under a'' best interest of the child analysis''.
Hans Reiser	Hans Reiser's murder trial began on 6 November 2007 with opening statements from prosecutor Paul Hora.
Harold G. Hoffman	Despite Governor Hoffman's doubt regarding Hauptmann's guilt, Hoffman was unable to convince the other members of the court to re-examine the case, and Hauptmann was executed on April 3, 1936.
Jon Burge	Burge was acquitted of police brutality charges in 1989 after a first trial resulted in a hung jury.
James Miller (filmmaker)	On 6 April 2006, the inquest jury at St Pancras Coroner's Court in London returned a verdict of unlawful killing, finding that Miller had been'' murdered.''
Herbert Rowse Armstrong	On 13 April 1922 at Hereford Shire Hall, Armstrong was found guilty of the murder of his wife.
Chelsea Manning	An Article 32 hearing, presided over by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza, was convened on December 16, 2011, at Fort Meade, Maryland ; the hearing resulted in Almanza recommending that Manning be referred to a general court-martial.
John Duffy and David Mulcahy	In 2000, Duffy appeared at the Old Bailey as a witness against Mulcahy and gave detailed evidence over 14 days.
Harold Challenor	By the time Challenor appeared at the Old Bailey in 1964, charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, he was deemed to be unfit to plead and was sent to Netherne mental hospital with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
John Christie (murderer)	In an official inquiry conducted in 1965 -- 66, Mr Justice (Sir Daniel) Brabin concluded that it was'' more probable than not'' that Evans killed his wife but that he did not kill his daughter Geraldine.
Baby M	In October 2011, the original judge in the Baby M case, Judge Sorkow, presided over the wedding of Melissa and her husband, a neuroscientist from New Jersey.
Randy Steven Kraft	On April 29, 1989, each side opened their closing argument s, which lasted a total of three days : the prosecution again listing all the physical and circumstantial evidence pointing to Kraft's guilt ; the defense arguing as to the circumstantial case put forward by the prosecution that all the murders were linked and accusing the prosecution of'' glossing over'' the truth.
Pat McGeown	At an early stage of the trial his solicitor Pat Finucane argued there was insufficient evidence against McGeown, and the charges were dropped in November 1988.
Fred C. Galda	He served as a Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor in the trial of Thomas Trantino, charged with the execution-style murder of two police officers at a bar on U. S. Route 46 in Lodi, New Jersey in 1963.
Sheila Dixon	Dixon's trial, originally scheduled for September 8, 2009, was postponed to November 9, 2009.
Leonard Weinglass	In 1970, he represented and won the acquittal of Angela Davis who was charged with participation in the abduction and murder of a local judge.
Mark Dean Schwab	Schwab waived his right to a jury trial, and was convicted on May 22, 1992.
Chris Huhne	He denied the charge until the trial began on 4 February 2013, when he changed his plea to guilty, stood down as an MP and left the Privy Council.
Redmond Barry	In October 1878, at Beechworth court, Barry presided over a case in which Mrs Ellen Kelly (King) and two men were accused of aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a Victoria Police constable named Alexander Fitzpatrick.
Richard G. Kopf	In 2007 Kopf dismissed a case over the use of the words'' rape'' and'' sexual assault'' in a rape trial in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Carmen Lawrence	On 21 February 1997, she was charged with three counts of perjury resulting from the findings of the Marks Royal Commission.
George Sitts	Sitts was tried first for the murder of Matthews and after his conviction and death sentence in March 1946, the state opted not to try him for Malcolm's murder.
Basshunter	On 14 June 2011 he was found not guilty at Kircaldy Sheriff Court with the sheriff describing the two accusers as'' neither credible or reliable'' and their testimony as'' riddled with inconsistencies and improbabilities''.
Ellis Rubin	In 2005, Rubin agreed to defend Tate on charges of robbery of a pizza delivery man.
Bevan Spencer von Einem	The trial against Bevan Spencer von Einem for the murder of Richard Kelvin opened at the Supreme Court Building of South Australia on 15 October 1984 before Mr. Justice White.
Kim Kardashian	In 1994, her father garnered public attention as the primary defense lawyer for football player O. J. Simpson during his murder trial.
Brian L. Rooney	Rooney was charged with Gardner-Quinn's murder on October 25, 2006 when DNA evidence linked him to her.
Benjamin LaGuer	In February 2004 Rehnquist filed a motion for a new trial in Worcester, Massachusetts Superior Court seeking a new trial on the basis of a Massachusetts State Police report generated the day LaGuer was arrested showing that four fingerprints found on the base of the trimline telephone, the cord of which was used to bind the victim's wrists, did not match the defendant's.
Washington Goode	The jury deliberated for only thirty-five minutes before finding Goode guilty of murder and on January 15, 1849 he was sentenced to death by Chief Justice Shaw.
Charles Birger	Nevertheless, Birger was hanged for the murder of Joe Adams on April 19, 1928, at the Franklin County Jail in Benton.
Thomas Pitera	In October 1992, alluding to evidence that Pitera brutally killed his victims and dismembered their bodies, Judge Reena Raggi sentenced him to life in prison, saying,'' Mr. Pitera, nobody deserves to die as these people died.''
Bob Woffinden	In 1997, he took up the case of Philip English, a 15-year-old who had been found guilty of the murder of a policeman in Gateshead.
Derryn Hinch	In October 2013 he was found guilty of contempt of court for breaching a suppression order when revealing details of Jill Meagher's killer, Adrian Ernest Bayley's criminal history.
Robert Blake (actor)	On April 22, 2002, Blake was charged with one count of murder with special circumstances, an offense eligible for the death penalty.
John Geoghan	A Worcester, Massachusetts jury found Druce guilty of first-degree murder on January 25, 2006, after the jury rejected his insanity defense.
Albert F. Sabo	He is best known for presiding over the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Sirhan Sirhan	On November 26, 2011, Sirhan's defense teams filed new court papers for a new trial, saying that'' expert analysis of recently uncovered evidence shows two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan's revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy.''
Edward Beale McLean	The divorce proceedings of Evalyn McLean continued in United States court but were dropped following an October 31, 1933, verdict by a jury in a Maryland trial that declared Edward McLean to be legally insane and incapable of managing his affairs.
Mark B. Cohen	In 2005, he unsuccessfully tried to get the FBI to reopen its investigation into the Pennsylvania murder of Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna, focused on prosecuting drug dealers at the time of his death.
Marcia Clark	Prior to the O. J. Simpson murder trial, her most high-profile prosecution was in 1991, when she prosecuted Robert John Bardo for the murder of television star Rebecca Schaeffer.
David Joyce (politician)	In 1989, he worked with Lake County Prosecutor Steven LaTourette to charge serial murderer and Cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren of the Kirtland cult killings.
Shi Yuejun	After pleading guilty Shi was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death on November 25, 2006.
Kristin Rossum	On November 12, 2002, (interestingly, Gregory deVillers' birthday) Rossum was found guilty of first degree murder.
Andrea Yates	The then-Harris County Texas District Attorney asked for the death penalty in Yates' 2002 trial.
Howard Martin	In 2005 Martin was prosecuted for the deaths of three patients : Harry Gittins, 74, Stanley Weldon, 74, and Frank Moss, 59, all from County Durham.
Roland D. Sawyer	Sawyer took an interest in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchists accused of murder in conjunction with a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, and was active in the unsuccessful campaign to win the pair a stay of execution and a new trial.
John George Witt	It reads as follows :' Mr Jefferson Davis came to England after his release from prison, and some time before the Attorney-General of the United States had entered a nolle prosequi, dated 6th February 1869, in his prosecution.
Hank Skinner	In November, 2012, a further analysis of DNA evidence found Skinner's blood on numerous objects and furniture in the back bedroom where Busby's sons were murdered.
Arthur Goldberg	Goldberg's interest in the law was sparked by the noted murder trial in 1923 of Leopold and Loeb, two wealthy young Chicagoans who were spared the death penalty with the help of their high-powered defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.
Winnie Ruth Judd	A preliminary hearing on the charge against Halloran was held in mid-January 1933 ; Judd was the star witness.
Stephen Flemmi	On the same day that Kevin O'Neil and Kevin Weeks were arrested in Boston, Flemmi pleaded guilty in Tulsa, Oklahoma state court to the 1981 murder of business tycoon Roger Wheeler.
Buck Ruxton	His trial, for the Murder of Isabella Ruxton only, started on 2 March 1936 and lasted for 11 days.
Jesse Pomeroy	Pomeroy's attorney, Charles Robinson, filed two exceptions which were overruled in February 1875, at which point Pomeroy was sentenced to hang until dead.
Zacarias Moussaoui	On April 22, 2005, in one of the court sessions near the end of that phase of the proceedings, Moussaoui surprised the whole court by pleading guilty to all charges, while at the same time denying having any intention to produce a massacre like 9/11.
F. Lee Bailey	In 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was found guilty in the murder of his wife Marilyn.
Brett Stewart (rugby league)	His trial commenced on Monday 13 September 2010 and concluded on 29 September 2010 with a jury who deliberated for 50 minutes to return a verdict of not guilty.
Thomas Mesereau	In 2009, Thomas Mesereau and Susan Yu defended Joe Babajian in a high-profile mortgage fraud criminal trial in Federal Court, Los Angeles.
Charlotte Durante	On April 19th, Attorney Thomas Montgomery submitted a Motion for a New Trial citing many mistakes including Judge Burton erring by forcing Montgomery to represent Durante when Montgomery submitted a Motion to Withdraw on April 8, 2013 at 8:30 am and the court erred by accepting the guilty verdict from the jury when they only deliberated for 12 minutes.''
Lewis B. Schwellenbach	He became a lawyer in 1921, gaining some prominence for his unsuccessful defense in a well-publicized murder case.
Mose Jefferson	The bribery trial of Mose Jefferson alone was still set to begin on August 10, 2009, with jury selection beginning on August 4, 2009.
Robert Allen Hale	In April 1959, Hale was cleared by a Florida Coroner's Jury of responsibility related to the shooting death of his 16-year-old wife of only 44 days, Kathleen Connally'' K. K.'' Hale (daughter of future Texas Governor, John Connally).
Cory Maye	On September 21, 2006, Maye's death sentence was unexpectedly overturned by Judge Michael Eubanks, who ruled that Maye had received incompetent legal representation during his sentencing phase, and ordered a new sentencing hearing.
Henry Marshall Furman	In 1891 he served as defense counsel in the infamous Denver trial of Harvard-educated physician and lawyer Thomas Thatcher Graves.
Henry Lee (forensic scientist)	Following the O. J. Simpson case, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr hired Dr. Henry Lee to join his investigation of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, who killed himself in Fort Marcy Park on 20 July 1993.
Gary Gilmore	Gilmore's murder trial began at the Provo courthouse on October 5, 1976 and lasted two days.
Havelock Ellis	When Ellis bowed out as the star witness in the trial of The Well of Loneliness on 14 May 1928, Norman Haire was set to replace him but no witnesses were called.