Show Notes Episode 408: Yet ANOTHER Trial of the Century

This week Host Dave Bledsoe files suit for his overdue bartabs in something he is calling the “Drinker’s Court” demanding a brokered settlement and injunctive relief from the court. (The court ruled he lacks standing because it doesn't actually exist.) On the show this week, we ramp up our Summer Series with a show about some “Trials of the Century” which happen roughly every eight or nine years.

Along the way we discover just how many times Dave has been inside a courtroom over the years and some of the reasons why. (Far fewer public intoxication charges than we expected.) Then we dive right into what it takes to be the “Trial of the Century”! (Turns out, just someone saying in a newspaper that it’s one.) Then we examine just a few of the cases that happened within the last half decade. (Because that is how long Dave has been alive, he’s old). From the Manson to the Menendez’s we peek under the hood of what made Americans so compelled to read about and then watch them so obsessively. (Probably because we are an emotionally bankrupt nation.) Finally, we reveal our Big Summer Series for 2023, so climb in your white Ford Bronco and hit the road with us!

Our Sponsor this week is Robo Lawyer, an AI lawyer trained not in the law, but television scripts about court cases! We open the show with SNL’s take on a Trial of the Century and close with Pigmeat Markham announcing the arrival of the presiding trial authority.

 Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

(The Last) Trial of the Century!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/trial010499.htm

The Manson Family murders, and their complicated legacy, explained

https://www.vox.com/2019/8/7/20695284/charles-manson-family-what-is-helter-skelter-explained

Problem Of a Fair Trial for Manson

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/09/archives/problem-of-a-fair-trial-for-manson.html

Confessions of a Court TV Addict

https://ew.com/article/1993/11/12/confessions-court-tv-addict/

How the Menendez Brothers’ Trial Changed America

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-the-menendez-brothers-trial-changed-america-2-190861/

MEDIA GIVES DAHMER TRIAL MILD COVERAGE

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-02-9201100558-story.html

English criminal court case broadcast on TV for first time

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/english-criminal-court-case-broadcast-tv-first-time-2022-07-28/

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://www.crschools.net/blog/20-trials-of-the-century/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_century

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75184/15-trials-century-and-media-frenzies-accompanied-them

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