The accused did not object to the trial court's charge to the jury that discourse `` may constitute a breach of the peace if it stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest.

As an accused is not compelled to give evidence in a criminal adversarial proceeding ; he may not be questioned by prosecutor or judge unless he chooses to do so.

Newcomers to a market may find it difficult to find loans, acquire shelf space, or receive official sanction to sell their product or services ; in technological fields, they may be accused of infringing on patents that the established competitors never assert against each other.

A number of historians note that as many as 40, 000 accused prisoners may have been summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial.

Exhortations to live blameless lives ( 2: 15 ; 3: 9, 13, 16 ) may suggest that the Christian addressees were accused of immoral behavior, and exhortations to civil obedience ( 2: 13-17 ) perhaps imply that they were accused of disloyalty to governing powers.

Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as criminal or civil punishment.

The accused may defend by counsel.

In Scandinavia, insanity is not a defense ; instead, it is the responsibility of the court system as such to consider whether the accused may have been psychotic or suffering from other severe mental defects when perpetrating the criminal act.

For certain terrorist and organised crime offences the Director of Public Prosecutions may issue a certificate that the accused be tried by the Special Criminal Court composed of three judges instead of a jury, one from the District Court, Circuit Court and High Court.

Peter the Great is traditionally accused of knouting his son Alexis to death ; whoever the executioner may have been, there is little doubt that he was beaten until he died.

It may also be a euphemism for masturbation, as Richard Wagner accused Nietzsche of masturbating too much.

In some cases, accusers may have been motivated by a desire to take the property of the accused, though this is a difficult assertion to prove in the majority of areas where the inquisition was active, as the inquisition had several layers of oversight built into its framework in a specific attempt to limit prosecutorial misconduct.

When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged " not guilty by reason of insanity " or " guilty but insane " and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary ( but usually indeterminate ) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court ( depending on the country and the offence charged ) instead of a punitive disposal.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone, however, has accused the film of promoting " the worship of World War II as the good war ," and has lumped it alongside films such as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down that he believes were well-made, but may have inadvertently contributed to Americans ' readiness for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Some may remember that the month before her 1998 victory her opponent, Don Jelinek, accused her of having disguised her identity while visiting Wilmington College, the college that rival Councilmember and Jelinek supporter Kriss Worthington attended.

Outside legal spheres, the word " traitor " may also be used to describe a person who betrays ( or is accused of betraying ) their own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which they may belong.

Although this was probably originally intended to avoid a situation where the Vice President was presiding over a debate that could ultimately result in his promotion to the presidency ( were the President convicted and removed from office ), it also prevents a possibly more likely contemporary scenario, where a President accused of some offense is being tried by the Senate presided over by a Vice President who may well be sympathetic to the President, reducing the independence of the Senate's consideration of the delicate question of whether to remove a sitting chief executive.

However, the accused may prevent extradition by offering clear evidence that he was not in the state he allegedly fled from at the time of the crime.

" The accused may also request a closure of the trial ; though, it must be demonstrated that “ first, there is a substantial probability that the defendant's right to a fair trial will be prejudiced by publicity that closure would prevent, and second, reasonable alternatives to closure cannot adequately protect the defendant's right to a fair trial.

The reason Oates did not receive the death penalty ( unlike those whom he had falsely accused ) may be because such a punishment would have deterred even honest witnesses from testifying in later cases.

Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally ( for example, to other people within the accused organization ) or externally ( to regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups concerned with the issues ).

Though the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.

As the election to maintain an accused person's right to silence prevents any examination or cross-examination of that person's position, it follows that the decision of counsel as to what evidence will be called is a crucial tactic in any case in the adversarial system and hence it might be said that it is a lawyer's manipulation of the truth.

At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.

* Judgement on wicked Zion ( 3: 1 – 4 ): Israel's rulers are accused of gaining more wealth at the expense of the poor, by any means.

Those who apply the labels of " crime " or " criminal " intend to assert the hegemony of a dominant population, or to reflect a consensus of condemnation for the identified behavior and to justify any punishments prescribed by the State ( in the event that standard processing tries and convicts an accused person of a crime ).

Peter, however, cannot be accused of ambition or the lust of power when a monastic superior, any more than when he insisted on divesting himself of the Papacy, to which he was subsequently raised.

A defendant or defender ( Δ in legal shorthand ) is any party required to answer a plaintiff's complaint in a civil lawsuit, or any party that has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.

This one stores the profiles of tens of thousands of Americans and legal residents who are not accused of any crime.

Hezbollah denies involvement in any attack, though it has been accused of some or all of these attacks:

* 1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.

If the request for plea bargain is accepted by the court, the accused stands convicted but neither is sentenced if in trial nor undergoes any sentence previously pronounced by a lower court if in appeal.

The accused is disqualified to take part in elections, hold any public office, or obtain a loan from any bank ; the accused is also dismissed from service if a government official.

He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, namely a papal fief ; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joan I of Naples, accused to have ordered the assassination of the former's brother, was ended in 1352 by a trial held in Avignon, by which she was acquitted from any charge.

In February 2009, Sigifredo López, the only deputy who survived and was later released by FARC, accused the group of killing the 11 captives and denied that any military rescue attempt had taken place.

In 2001, Human Rights Watch ( HRW ) denounced that the FARC-EP had abducted and executed civilians accused of supporting paramilitary groups in the demilitarized zone and elsewhere, without providing any legal defense mechanisms to the suspects and generally refusing to give any information to relatives of the victims.

In his History of South Africa Theal says: " The community of Lydenburg was accused of attempting to domineer over the whole country, without any other right to pre-eminence than that of being composed of the earliest inhabitants, a right which it had forfeited by its opposition to the general weal.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

* Accused convicted under summary conviction are eligible for a pardon after 5 years provided the accused is not convicted of any further offences during that period.

West-Pakistan accused East-Pakistan for not taking any action even, in fact, Eastern Air Command of Indian Air Force did attack the East-Pakistan's Air Force.

When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.

Among other acts, Teller and Austin are accused of paying $800 to Sears.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

The author of the Festal Index, who was the original collector of St. Athanasius ' famed Festal Epistles ( collected shortly after his death ), stated that the Arians had accused St. Athanasius, among other accusations, that his ordination as Pope of Alexandria in 328 was not canonical because at the time of the consecration to the episcopate he had not yet attained the canonical age 30.

EW has been used in battle by Japan and several other nations have developed and been accused of using an entomological warfare program.

He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it, killing for mere amusement, deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation, and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship.

Zinoviev, Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership then accused him of factionalism.

In 1999, a political crisis occurred when both sides accused each other for supporting its enemies.

Though he remained firmly neutral, each side accused him of siding with the other, perhaps because of his neutrality.

Various categories of prisoners were defined: petty criminals, POWs of the Russian Civil War, officials accused of corruption, sabotage and embezzlement, political enemies, dissidents and other people deemed dangerous for the state.

Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups are accused of frequently extrajudicially executing or otherwise punishing those considered collaborators with Israel.

" Conflicting reports say Al-Manar accused either Israel or Jews of deliberately spreading HIV and other diseases to Arabs throughout the Middle East.

In Brazil, according to the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, racism and other forms of race-related hate speech are " imprescriptible crime ( s ) with no right to bail to its accused ".

In a recent example, Kirk Wright of International Management Associates has been accused of mail fraud and other securities violations which allegedly defrauded clients of close to US $ 180 million.

They were also overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60 % of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups.

Their treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants, whom they are accused of having practically exterminated, is a grave charge, and if true, cannot be condoned on the plea that such conduct was characteristic of the age, and that as bad or worse was perpetrated by other nations even in later years.

Nehru was accused of promoting capitalism in the guise of democratic socialism among other things.

Retrieved 19 July 2006 .</ ref > In 1999, six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court.

Catharine Linck and other women who were accused of using dildos, such as two nuns in 16th century Spain executed for using " material instruments ", were punished more severely than those who did not.

Early in the Long Parliament's proceedings the house unanimously accused the Earl of Strafford of high treason, and other crimes and misdemeanors.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international – especially Japanese — firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.