Researchers and the Public will soon be able to access the legal documents of one of the contentious criminal cases in the history of U.S. Legal System.

A huge bulk of legal documents amassed for over 50 years in the Sam Sheppard Murder Trial are being donated to Cleveland State University's law school the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason.

The college is planning to make the collection open to researchers and the general public once everything has been cataloged and digitized, reports Cleveland Leader.

Sam Sheppard, an osteopath, was convicted in murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard in 1951 at their residence in Cleveland area, Ohio.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Sheppard's conviction in 1964 saying the original trial judge had failed to shield jurors and witnesses from possible bias as media had completely taken over by the case. When the ruling was overturned, Sheppard had already spent a decade in prison.

He was acquitted in a retrial 1966. He died four years later.

But, Sheppard had always maintained that he did not kill his wife and always blamed on a bushy-haired intruder who, according to him, attacked and knocked him unconscious.

In the year 2000, Sheppard's son, Sam Reese Sheppard, who was seven at the time of his mother's murder, sued the State of Ohio for his father's alleged wrongful imprisonment.

After a ten-week trial, a civil jury returned a unanimous verdict that Samuel Sheppard had failed to prove his father had been wrongfully imprisoned.

Mason was the lead prosecutor in the wrongful imprisonment trial of 2000. He and his team gathered these records and documents donated to CSU from the previous two criminal trials for the suit by Sheppard's son.

"It was a rare opportunity to forever preserve an important piece of legal history and show how the advancements in forensic evidence play such an important role in our criminal justice system," Mason said in a statement.

The documents include photographs, recordings and exhibits. The university is planning to create a website, and is also considering a traveling exhibition, reports Cleveland Leader.