`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

On Wednesday morning, November 2, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal stated that although Brown justly deserved the extreme penalty, no man, however criminal, ought to suffer the penalty without a fair trial.

On direct appeal, a prisoner challenges the grounds of the conviction based on an error that occurred at trial or some other stage in the adjudicative process.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

On the eve of trial, the case settled worldwide to the parties ' " mutual satisfaction "; the amount that CBS paid to the Orwell Estate was not disclosed.

On 31 October 1958, the Union of Soviet Writers held a trial behind closed doors.

On November 6, 1985, the M-19 stormed the Colombian Palace of Justice and held the Supreme Court magistrates hostage, intending to put president Betancur on trial.

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

On December 15, 2002, on the ensuing trial highlights the government's failure to demonstrate in court that the alleged coup attempt had ever actually taken place.

On May 1, 2007 Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology announced the world's first gene therapy trial for inherited retinal disease.

On the weekend of 30 June 1934, he gave order to the SS to seize Röhm and his lieutenants, and to execute them without trial ( known as the Night of the Long Knives ).

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

On 6 February 2005, the homes of two Sharman Networks executives and the offices of Sharman Networks in Australia were raided under a court order by ARIA to gather evidence for the trial.

On 31 January 2001, at the end of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

On 29 October, hijackers of a West German Lufthansa passenger jet demanded the release of the three surviving gunmen, who had been arrested after the Fürstenfeldbruck gunfight and were being held for trial.

On 3 September 1386, he was called to give evidence in the Scrope v. Grosvenor trial at Chester.

On 7 July a government decree ordering the arrest and trial of Vladimir Lenin was published.

On 4 October 2001, it is believed that the Taliban covertly offered to turn bin Laden over to Pakistan for trial in an international tribunal that operated according to Islamic shar ' ia law.

On 14 October 2001, the Taliban proposed to hand bin Laden over to a third country for trial, but only if they were given evidence of bin Laden's involvement in the events of 11 September 2001.

On the other hand, if clients plead based on their lawyers ' overly pessimistic advice, the cases do not go to trial and the clients are none the wiser.

On 21 May 1975, the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Raspe began, named after the district in Stuttgart where it took place.

On August 20, 2006, in Tampa, Florida, most of the state leadership members of the street gang, the Latin Kings, were arrested in connection with RICO conspiracy charges to engage in racketeering and currently await trial.

On the day of Parks ' trial — December 5, 1955 — the WPC distributed the 35, 000 leaflets.

After a trial that lasted a few months, he was convicted and hanged On 29 March 1970 in Freetown.

On November 14, 2011 the company conducting the trial announced that it will discontinue further development of its stem cell programs.

On the occasion of his 1922 indictment the $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman, and the charge was nolle prossed.

On July 3, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.

On 22 March 2006 the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the indictment of fifty leaders of FARC for importing more than $ 25 billion worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was found guilty on all 11 counts of the federal indictment.

On that account, Dewey successfully lobbied for an overhaul in New York's criminal procedure law, which at that time required separate trials for each count of an indictment.

On the other hand, Bonaparte was opposed to the indictment jury (" grand jury " in common law countries ), and preferred to give this task to the criminal section of the Court of Appeals.

On 11 December, among crowded and silent streets, the deposed King was brought from the Temple to stand before the Convention and hear his indictment, an accusation of high treason and crimes against the State.

On April 2, 1992, after only 14 hours of deliberation, the jury found Gotti guilty on all charges of the indictment ( Locasio was found guilty on all but one ).

* On June 29, 2012, Rob Warney, a former Hamilton Township Director in Mayor John Bencivengo's cabinet, admitted to US District Court Judge Peter Sheridan to laundering money related to the federal bribery indictment against Mayor Bencivengo.

On 24 October, three days after receiving the indictment, Ley strangled himself in his cell using a noose made by tearing a towel into strips, fastened to the toilet pipe in his cell.

" On February 14, 2009, The New York Times noted in relation to an indictment of Judge Bobby DeLaughter for taking bribes from Scruggs that federal prosecutors have said that Lott was induced by Scruggs to offer DeLaughter a federal judgeship in order to gain the judge's favor.

On the eve of this new indictment, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand filed a complaint against judge Courroye accusing him of having made a " false " document in July 2000 ( because Courroye had put the date of 3 July for an ordinance drafted on 5 July ) — but this manoeuver did not stop the procedure.

On January 19, 1994, after three days of evidence presentation, a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment against Ferguson, which carried the possibility of up to 175 years in prison.

* First offense: On summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding € 381, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding € 635.

* Second offense: On summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding € 508, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding € 1, 269.

* Third or subsequent offense: On summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding € 1, 269 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both the fine and the imprisonment, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine of such amount as the court considers appropriate or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both the fine and the imprisonment.

On August 17, the grand jury returned an indictment alleging 11 overt acts.

On 23 October 1985, a federal grand jury issued a thirty-five-count indictment charging Osho and several other disciples with conspiracy to evade immigration laws.

On August 27, 1490, the Grand Inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada issued an indictment ordering the transfer of the prisoners from Segovia to Ávila to await trial.

On 7 March 2003, the Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) issued a sealed indictment for Taylor.

On 7 September, receiving complaints from at least four different women ( according to IBA's correspondent for police affairs ), the Israel Police determined that they had enough evidence for an indictment.

On 30 October 2007, the state prosecution told the High Court of Justice that it had changed its mind about the indictment on the basis of evidence from the two key complainants.

On September 16, 1920, two days after the men's indictment, Mario Buda is believed to have left a time-delay dynamite bomb packed with heavy iron sash-weights in a horse-drawn cart on Wall Street, which then exploded, killing 38 people in what would become known as the Wall Street Bombing.

On June 16, prosecutors won a superseding indictment charging Minkow with credit card fraud and two additional counts of mail fraud.