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
Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune / MCT
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
Nick Ut
16, John Allen Muhammad
17, Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind
Nick Ut
18, Robert Blake
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19, Colin Ferguson
Kevin Larkin
