The Trial of Leopold and Loeb is a well produced audio drama, styled like a radio play. There is a small amount of explanation and summary at the beginning and/or end of each chapter, but as indicated in the title, a dramatization of the 1924 Leopold-Loeb hearing itself takes up most of this runtime. It essentially functions as a courtroom drama, and the ways that the state and defense clashed. For instance, no time is given to explaining the investigation of the crime, or the dozens of witnesses who spoke about that aspect of the case, but much time is spent on the lawyer's opening and closing arguments, as well as the disagreements about whether the defense psychiatrists should be allowed to testify. Many questions about the culpability and personality of the murderers are raised and discussed, and the audience is left to come to their own conclusions.

The voice actors do their jobs well, and there are well used sound effects and murmurs from the courtroom crowd throughout to add to the sense of drama. As a short audio drama, this piece would be well suited to someone who has some interest in this specific case or in legal cases/courtroom dramas generally.

As someone who has researched this case I really loved that when discussing newspaper articles as sources, they were well cited. I've never heard that before in an audio work and was very excited to hear it done here. I did notice a few inaccuracies, though on the whole this was taken from the case transcripts and newspaper reports, and is a very accurate, though obviously truncated and summarized, recounting.