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title: United States v. Shipp text: out of his custody." The case took on special significance as the only criminal trial of the Supreme Court in its entire history. The main impact of the case was its reiteration of the principle that the Supreme Court could always intervene in state capital cases if there was a question of violation of the right to due process contained in the US Constitution. Shipp and several of his co-defendants were convicted by the Court and sentenced to terms from 2–3 months in federal prison in Washington, D.C. The sentences were shortened for good behavior. On April 15, 2016, the title: United States constitutional criminal procedure text: juries—"Strauder v. West Virginia" (1880), "Virginia v. Rives" (1880), "Neal v. Delaware" (1881), "Carter v. Texas" (1900), "Rogers v. Alabama" (1904), and "Norris v. Alabama" (1935)—and the conviction African-American defendants for crimes involving white victims in the southern states: by a mob-dominated trial, as in "Moore v. Dempsey" (1923); and without counsel, as in "Powell v. Alabama" (1932). U.S. Const. amend. VIII provides: "Stack v. Boyle" (1951) is the only case in which the Supreme Court has held the bail imposed to have been constitutionally excessive. There, the Court found $50,000 to be excessive in relation to the flight risk title: Death of Caylee Anthony text: than 150 percent, and other news channels deciding to focus on the trial saw their ratings double and triple. HLN achieved its most watched hour in network history (4.575 million) and peaked at 5.205 million when the verdict was read. According to "The Christian Post", the O. J. Simpson case had a 91 percent television viewing audience, with 142 million people listening by radio and watching television as the verdict was delivered. "The Simpson case was the longest trial ever held in California, costing more than $20 million to fight and defend, running up 50,000 pages of trial transcript in title: Pizza Connection Trial text: States of America vs Badalamenti et al. The trial began on September 30, 1985. The jury reached their verdicts on March 2, 1987. Sentences were handed down on by judge Pierre Leval on June 22, 1987. Pizza Connection Trial The Pizza Connection Trial stands as the longest criminal jury trial in the federal courts in U.S. history. The trial began on September 30, 1985 and ended with convictions of all but one of the 22 defendants on March 2, 1987. The trial centered on a Mafia-run enterprise that distributed vast quantities of heroin and cocaine in the United States, and title: Hostages Trial text: Hostages Trial The Hostages Trial (or, officially, The United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al.) was held from 8 July 1947 until 19 February 1948 and was the seventh of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The twelve U.S. trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" or, more formally,