Azaria Chamberlain
This case is more widely known as the “Dingo Baby Case” and was very big in the 1980's despite being from half way around the world in Australia. I do not do a lot of cases that are outside of the United States due to the fact that the laws are so different in other countries and I do well to understand some of the laws in our country, but this one was a very high profile case. I also think that the results that were concluded in the case, then referred and then more concluded again later are interesting. To be fair I am fairly uncertain that this case would have ever made it to a United States court in 1980 let alone in 2017. I do not think the evidence was there to charge anyone. In fact, I do not think there has ever been enough evidence to prove anything in this case. However, Australia apparently felt differently. They have however apparently used this case in teachings about how the media and bias can affect a trial unfairly. On August 17, 1980 Michael and Li...