Two trials that are getting national attention are taking place here in rural Yavapai County, AZ:

Stockbroker Stephen DeMocker is accused of bludgeoning his ex-wife to death with a golf club in order to avoide paying alimony. This case has been dragging on for two years. First the presiding judge had a seizure and later died of a brain tumor. Then his lawyers abruptly resigned when an e-mail that they tried to have introduced as evidence (allegedly pointing to others as the murderers) was written by DeMocker's daughter and posted from an internet cafe. The acting judge declared a mistrial. Before that, the dimwit coroner admitted that he drove the wife's body in the bed of his pickup truck 100 miles to Phoenix to perform the autopsy, and that nonsterile instruments were used in getting fingernail scrapings, which turned up DNA from three men other than the defendant.
Now his new lawyers are trying to get him sprung from solidary, where he's been since last September. But the prosecutor says the judge has no authority over the country jail: "The sheriff can do what he wants."

The second trial is of James Arthur Ray, charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three participants in a sweat lodge that was part of his "motivational spiritual seminar" in Sedona last summer. Ray charged his participants ten grand for three days of starvation and dehydration, proving that a fool and his money are soon parted. His lawyers are claiming that the participants were adults and capable of assessing their own risk. Now they're claiming the deaths weren't due to heat stroke, but to insecticides found nearby.