Which of these following trials/cases did you find the most captivating???/ (children, case)

[Tom Lennox 70]

Which of these high profile cases / high profile criminal trials in the past 20 years did you find most captivating???

[Tom Lennox 70]

I had to go with Amanda Knox, the whole thing was quite an emotional yarn. An young innocent American girl in a foreign country, going through an undemocratic justice system and possibly facing 23 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. I think the Italian government should pay more restitution for the time she spent in prison there.

She was convicted on no evidence. No jury in the United States would have convicted her based on the case. The police bungled and contaminated the crime scene, the confession was under duress and threats. The jury was not sequestered and the prosecution relied completely on conjecture and made up stories with no physical or reliable evidence, plus a jury with anti-American prejudices. I followed this trial very close and am glad that she won her apppeal.

The Border Patrol case, though less high profile (due to liberal media bias???) involved the agents shooting a illegal Mexican drug dealer in Texas. They were pardoned by President Bush.

With both Rodney King and George Zimmerman, its not really the trial itself but what happened (and what might happen!!!!!!!!!!!) afterward. I think that Zimmerman killed Trayvon in self defense, but that altercation happened because Zimmerman disobeyed the cops orders to not follow Trayvon, so Travyson might have been defending himself too so its compliated. Mroe facts need to be known, like whether Zimmerman identified himself as a neighborhood watch person, etc. Having said that, its only national news because Trayvon was black. Things like Rodney King and Trayvon Martin happen all the time everywhere between people of the same race and its not covered. Just recently outside Baltimore right hear a black cop chased down and killed a black teenager who had been throwing rocks at his house though no guns were involved. I am sure if the cop was white the kid's family would be calling for Jesse Jackson to come to town.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Both Casey Anthony and OJ Simpson were serious miscarriages of justice. As for Clinton and Edwards, they were just Democrats being Democrats.

[Michigan Transplant]

Wow, this poll made me really think. So many to choose from! How terribly sad, though. And to be honest, once the story get "worn out" in the media, I tend to lose interest, other than to know what sentence was imposed on the guilty. I noticed the Menendez brothers were missing, or is this case now too old to be included? (Am I really as old as my birth certificate says? Never thought I'd see the day!).

[sugarmaple]

Good posting re: poll -- thinking about all of these cases, I am not so sure which one[s] I thought were more captivating; for me, if I switched words to more "upsetting" or more " frustrating", it might be easier for me to answer the poll, although I would have to 'click' more than one.

More captivating as in outrageous - it would have to be a tie between OJ and Casey Anthony.

[virgode]

Captivating? Bill 'I did not have sex with that women' Clinton, was charming.

[iRighti]

I guess for me the duo of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo (the DC Snipers) were of particular interest as I drove through the DC area during a charity ride for 9/11 victims. People were rightfully terrified and there was a great deal of mis-information about vehicles, etc. Everywhere we went, the shootings dominated the conversation. The randomness of being shot dead while pumping gas, mowing your lawn or cleaning your car, as well as the threats to school children caused wide-spread panic. I did not alter my plans and drove around the evening we spent there before moving on to New York - although I do recall changing lanes a bit more often than usual. (Muhammad was executed in late 2009 and Malvo is serving 6 consecutive life sentences with no parole.)

[Phil306]

McVeigh. I give him credit. When convicted, he stopped ALL appeals and took his death penalty, for lack of better terms, "like a man." Right, wrong, or indifferent, I have to give him credit for not prolonging his case for 20+ years, even though he never fully took responsibility for his actions.

[robertpolyglot]

First and foremost: Scott Peterson ... SoCal boy, Cal Poly grad, way cool ... couldn't believe it. He got the right verdict, though. The only fly in the ointment was Gloria Allred, who seems to nauseate everyone. I will never forget the mucky-muck from Orange County who called her a "slick butch lawyeress" when I was growing up in LA.

To some extent:
OJ Simpson - a real media circus, and a disgusting contortion of the justice system, selecting 9 black women as jurors.

Amanda Knox - what an odious crime, and she knew nothing about it and had nothing to do with it ... yeah, right ... please.

[CarolinaWoman]

OJ & Casey Anthony for the surprise verdicts after such lengthy and costly trials.

Rodney King for the aftermath when the verdict was rendered and the riots started.

McVeigh as he bit the bullet and took the punishment.

Van Der Snot hasn't really had a Holloway trial only the Flores trial in Peru and Peru can keep him.

No trial yet for Zimmerman ... but it should be a doozy ... since he is Hispanic he needs to get in touch with Jose Baez and perhaps get the trial moved to Pinellas County. Zimmerman is Hispanic and our US Attorney General made the statement only 'white' people can commit hate crimes so it appears to me we have two minorities in this case.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Slick Willie try to squirm out of his troubles ... "I did not have sex with that woman." John Edwards did, as there is a baby to prove it but the trial was a waste of taxpayer dollars.

I couldn't choose just one case. The only one in your list I didn't follow close was Amanda Knox.