Famous trials in history

1994. California. The crime: killing his wife and her friend. Lesser crime: escaping in a white Ford Bronco on the freeway. The sentence: acquittal.

1998. DC. The crime: oral sex with an intern in an oddly shaped office—or rather, lying about it. The sentence: acquittal.

1925.Tennessee. The crime: teaching Darwinian biology to his students in Tennessee. The sentence: guilty.

1431. Rouen. The crime: cross-dressing and recanting... and maybe fighting the English and the Burgundians, too. The sentence: death by burning.

399 BC. Athens. The crime: disrespecting the gods and teaching young people to think for themselves. The sentence: death by poisoning.

1895. London. The crime: gross indecency with other males. The sentence: 2 years of hard labour.

2022. Fairfax County, Virginia. The crime: not piracy in the Caribbean, but defamation and domestic abuse. The sentence: financial penalty. Name both the defendant and the plaintiff (the two sides sued and counter-sued).

33 AD. Judea. The crime: plotting against the empire. The sentence: death... or maybe not?

1961. Jerusalem. The crime: crimes against humanity. The sentence: death by hanging.

1951, New York. The crime: espionage... and maybe being Jewish, too. The sentence: death by electric chair.

1894, Paris. The crime: espionage... and maybe being Jewish, too. The sentence: deportation to French Guiana (later pardoned).

1637, Boston. The crime: disparaging Puritan ministers and unorthodox religious views. The sentence: exile.

1963-64, Rivonia (Johannesburg). The crime: revolution and sabotage... and maybe fighting for racial equality, too The sentence: life in prison (released after 27 years in Robben Island).

1633, Rome. The crime: heresy. The sentence: forced to abjure heliocentrism, house arrest for life.

1521, Worms. The crime: writings disparaging Catholic doctrine. The sentence: declared an outlaw.