Social class in England during the Victorian era had much less to do with wealth than with your assigned station at birth -upward mobility was as rare as hen's teeth. Sophia Jarvis was a working class orphan who was sent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/14/Dirty-Dishonest-and-Badly-Behaved-Sophia-Jarvis-Victorian-Maid/It's rare that a real-life trial draws the interest of strangers (cough*OJ*cough),...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/07/Major-Falsehoods-About-Courtroom-Scenes-in-Movies/Arsenic has been the go-to poison for people wanti... ...most famous use of Marsh’s test was in the trial of Marie Lafarge in 1840, in which the defendant... ...t into the court for the Marsh test, resulting in trial spectators buying 500 bottles of smelling salts.... ...les of smelling salts. Read what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/26/The-Dramatic-Courtroom-Demo-Designed-to-Expose-Arsenic-Murders/Claudy Charles was on trial for arson in Miami. His defense was that the car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/09/Pants-on-Fire-2/In 1907, Harry Thaw went on trial for murdering Stanford White. Thaw was the parano... ...performance at Madison Square Garden. The ensuing trial , involving three celebrities, was a media sensati... ...ording to Lloyd Chiasson in his book The Press on Trial , a Western Union...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/25/10-Facts-About-the-Original-Trial-of-the-Century/Courtroom dramas are popular because they offer so much: crime, mystery, investigation, emotion, judgement, and most of all, a chance for a character to make a great speech -or have a meltdown. Put those elements togethe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/04/Twelve-of-the-Best-Courtroom-Scenes-in-Movies/Taking masterpieces to court is a tradition as old... ...udges buy Sénard’s argument, but the trial brought Flaubert so much publicity that he was ab... ...going his way. Biafra wore a coat and tie to the trial , hardly the wardrobe of a ratty punk. The Dead K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/18/5-Legendary-Art-Trials/In a fairly recent criminal case in Tennessee, an... ...ed with prosecuting the defendant. That's the way trials work. The DA claimed that the term was derogatory...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/03/Captain-Justice-Responds-to-Governments-Motion-to-Ban-the-Word-Government/Once upon a time, " trial by fire" was a literal trial , with literal fire. The idea was that if an accus... ...would save the truly innocent. These were called trial by ordeal, and in some ways it made sense.Of cour... ...e, the system was far from foolproof; many of the *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/20/A-History-of-Trial-By-Ordeal/A punch during bar brawl in 2011 caused John Hutti... ..."unfortunate, unforeseen incident," and set a new trial date for March 4th. Link -via Arbroath
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/08/Mistrial-Declared-When-Victims-Eyeball-Falls-Out/
