State v. Harlan Voss
Criminal trial
DUI manslaughter · leaving the scene
A rain-slick coastal road, a pedestrian in dark clothes, and a blood-alcohol reading the State calls decisive.
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People v. Maren Calder
Criminal trial
Grand larceny · falsifying business records
A river-city food pantry, eighteen months of vendor invoices, and $847,000 that never bought a crate of milk.
Commonwealth v. Elias Trent
Criminal trial
Robbery · aggravated assault
A dusk pharmacy counter, a demand for oxycodone, a clerk’s fractured wrist, and a swab the lab says is his.
Historic trials
Famous public cases from history, playable as educational reconstructions — not transcripts.
People of Athens v. Socrates
History
Impiety · corrupting the youth
Athens, 399 BCE. An old teacher, an oracle, and a city that wants him silent.
Bishop's court v. Joan of Arc
History
Heresy · relapse · wearing men's clothes
Rouen, 1431. A peasant soldier, voices, and an English-held church court.
Holy Office v. Galileo Galilei
History
Vehement suspicion of heresy · Copernican teaching
Rome, 1633. A telescope, a banned Dialogue, and an injunction from 1616.
Crown v. Oscar Wilde
History
Gross indecency
London, 1895. A libel that flipped, a calling card, and the Old Bailey.
State v. Nelson Mandela (Rivonia)
History
Sabotage · conspiracy
Pretoria, 1963–64. A farm, a manifesto, and a man who will not plead for mercy.
Republic of Cuba v. Fidel Castro (Moncada)
History
Armed uprising · attack on a barracks
Santiago, 1953. The Moncada barracks, a failed dawn assault, and a speech that will outlive the sentence.
France v. Alfred Dreyfus
History
Treason · the bordereau
Paris, 1894. A torn memo, a Jewish captain, and a secret file the defense is not shown.
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes
History
Teaching evolution · the Butler Act
Dayton, 1925. A high-school teacher, a state's Bible statute, and a circus the world watches.
Republic v. Marie Antoinette
History
Treason · depleting the nation
Paris, 1793. The widow Capet, a revolutionary tribunal, and a verdict the street already wants.
Crown v. Mohandas K. Gandhi
History
Sedition · the Great Trial
Ahmedabad, 1922. Articles in Young India, a lawyer who will not resist the jail.
High Court v. Charles I
History
Tyrant · traitor · murderer
Westminster, 1649. A king who will not plead, a court that should not exist.
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Evidence locker, scene map, and reconstructions — labeled, never faked as authentic.
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