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Guilty, Not Charged
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Jaws drop as O.J. goes free
When the O.J. Simpson trial became a bloated media fiasco in 1995, most Americans were convinced of the former sports star's guilt, which turned his acquittal into a biting reprimand of the average viewer's judgment skills. Does this look like an innocent man to you? |
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Lee Harvey Oswald gets popped
Dallas businessman-turned-vigilante Jack Ruby decided on the verdict for Lee Harvey Oswald before a jury could do it. Ruby's case raises some fascinating questions about the nature of judicial punishment, so it's a shame that he died in the slammer before a final verdict was reached. |
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Jailbird Paris gets her wings clipped
Paris Hilton items have grown tiresome of late, but the hotel heiress' recent publicity excursion is a necessary inclusion in this list. When Hilton managed to head home after three measly days behind bars, the public reaction demonstrated a force of justice that... could probably get put to better use. But it's startlingly satisfying to see law take hold and stick.
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Hitler takes his life and the world destroys his evil
Adolf Hitler took his own life in a German bunker in the final days of the Third Reich, but in many ways, he had already lost the battle. If Germany's fallen leader had gone into hiding, as many Nazis did in the aftermath of World War II, there is little doubt that the world would've closed in on him. If Hitler wound up facing a jury, there's no doubt that, like Adolf Eichmann, he would've been sentenced to death. Did Hitler escape his fate or hurry it along? Either way, his posthumous reputation is far too negative (the epitome of evil, some would say) to presume that this is the end result he had in mind when he put a bullet to his brain and cyanide in his body. |
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Virginia Tech maniac generates hatred after death
Virginia Tech murderer Cho Seung-Hui sent a recording of his final hours to MSNBC and wound up posthumously addressing the nation. Whether the psychotic student's murderous behavior resulted from social alienation or solely from internal psychosis can never be fully determined, but beyond all the analysis, the result of his highly visible visage in the wake of the disaster was widespread hatred and frustration over the fact that the person responsible for such pain would never have to answer for his actions. |
