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Modern High-Profile Murder Prosecutions

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century murder prosecutions that drew sustained public attention and tested how forensic and ballistic evidence is presented to a jury, including the Simpson double murder trial and the Washington, D.C. sniper attacks. A case belongs here when its cited source describes a prosecution of national prominence and the physical evidence it turned on. The group is about how physical and forensic evidence was presented and contested in a public trial, not about the legal doctrine the verdicts may have produced.

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Murder trial of O. J. Simpson (Wikipedia)
Has Member: O. J. Simpson Murder Case, Lead
Quote, Has Member: O. J. Simpson Murder Case, Lead
Though prosecutors argued that Simpson was implicated by a significant amount of forensic evidence, he was acquitted of both murders on October 3.
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Wikipedia: D.C. Sniper Attacks
Has Member: Beltway Snipers Case, Conclusions of the investigations
Quote, Has Member: Beltway Snipers Case, Conclusions of the investigations
in at least one of the ensuing murder trials, a Virginia court found Muhammad guilty of killing
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