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20 Biggest Trials of the Past 20 Years, from O.J. Simpson to Scott Peterson to Casey Anthony

Casey Anthony’s murder trial is over, but how does it compare to America’s other legal circuses? The Daily Beast ranks the 20 biggest trials, by media saturation, of the past two decades.

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1, O.J. Simpson

VINCE BUCCI

2, Martha Stewart

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3, Michael Jackson

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4, Timothy McVeigh

5, Rod Blagojevich

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6, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby

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7, Saddam Hussein

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8, Scott Peterson

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9, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling

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10, Rae Carruth

JEFF SINER

11, John Gotti

Gene Shaw

12, Tom Delay

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13, Lorena Bobbitt

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14, Jack Kevorkian

Bill Pugliano

15, Lyle and Erik Menendez

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16, John Allen Muhammad

17, Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind

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18, Robert Blake

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19, Colin Ferguson

Kevin Larkin

20, Bernard Ebbers

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