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

The United States, which did not participate in the merits phase of the proceedings, maintained that the ICJ's power did not supersede the Constitution of the United States and argued that the court did not seriously consider the Nicaraguan role in El Salvador, while it accused Nicaragua of actively supporting armed groups there, specifically in the form of supply of arms.

Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama Fury, starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly accused of a crime and then attacked by lynch mob who burn down the jail where he is awaiting trial and it is assumed they killed him in the flames, but did not.

Hasia Diner has accused Peter Novick and Finkelstein of being " harsh critics of American Jewry from the left ," and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.

Although he did not support the militant anarchism of the Haymarket anarchists, he fought for the clemency of the accused because he did not believe they were the perpetators.

Behe has been accused of using an " argument by lack of imagination ", and Behe himself acknowledges that a failure of current science to explain how an " irreducibly complex " organism did or could evolve does not automatically prove the impossibility of such an evolution.

This philosophy did not work well for Teamster presidents Beck, Hoffa, and Williams who were all accused of criminal acts and sent to prison.

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.

: the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

For this reason, most Post-structuralists hold a more open-ended view of function within systems than did Structuralists and were sometimes accused of circularity and ambiguity.

They did not teach that the Father died on the cross, though they were sometimes accused of this.

When Pretorius conducted the negotiations which led to the signing of the Sand River Convention he did so without consulting the volksraad, and Potgieter's party accused him of usurping power and aiming at domination over the whole country.

Severus allowed the enforcement of policies already long-established, which meant that Roman authorities did not intentionally seek out Christians, but when people were accused of being Christians they would be forced to either curse Jesus and make an offering to Roman gods, or be executed.

However, in Crawford v. Washington,, the Supreme Court increased the scope of the Confrontation Clause by ruling that " testimonial " out-of-court statements are inadmissible if the accused did not have the opportunity to cross-examine that accuser and that accuser is unavailable at 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.

Crimes of a serious nature, and especially those that were deemed unfit for ordinary judicial investigation, such as heresy and witchcraft, fell within its jurisdiction, as also did appeals by persons condemned in the open courts, and likewise the cases before those tribunals in which the accused had not appeared.

If the accused appeared, the sentence was carried into execution at once ; if he did not appear, it was quickly made known to the whole body, and the Freischöffe who was the first to meet the condemned was bound to put him to death.

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.

Both papers were accused by critics of sensationalizing the news in order to drive up circulation, although the newspapers did serious reporting as well.

The accused were convicted of crimes relating to murder, armed robbery, and participating in ethnic clashes in Southern Darfur that killed at least 10 people, but Amnesty International believes that the convicted were tortured and did not receive fair trials and adequate legal representation.

It was this very success that was the object of harsh critiques by Carlo Gozzi, who accused Goldoni of having deprived the Italian theatre of the charms of poetry and imagination.

The presiding judge, Justice O ' Flynn, ruled: ' I can only infer that by arresting the accused, the object would be achieved of closing down the play.

In addition to being the object of popular protests, Rhee was accused by Kim Yong Kap, Deputy Minister of Finance, of embezzling more than $ 20 million in government funds.

Werdenfels Castle, where the accused were held, tried and executed, became an object of superstitious horror and was abandoned in the 17th century.

Indicative of the reader-response school of theory, Terence Hawkes writes that the fundamental close reading technique is based on the assumption that “ the subject and the object of study — the reader and the text — are stable and independent forms, rather than products of the unconscious process of signification ," an assumption which he identifies as the " ideology of liberal humanism ,” which is attributed to the New Critics who are “ accused of attempting to disguise the interests at work in their critical processes .” For Hawkes, ideally, a critic ought to be considered to “ the finished work by his reading of it, and to remain simply an inert consumer of a ‘ ready-made ’ product .”

This is a constitutional right of every accused person who is unable to engage a lawyer and secure legal services on account of reasons such as poverty, indigence or incommunicado situation and the State is under a mandate to provide a lawyer to an accused person if the circumstances of the case and the needs of justice so required, provided of course the accused person does not object to the provision of such lawyer.

Nevertheless s. 229 ( c ), which provides for a form of constructive felony murder in situations where " an accused for an unlawful object did anything knowing that it was likely an objective standard to cause someone's death " is still operative, as confirmed in a 1999 appellate court decision.

Japan's doctrine of equivalents was first formalized in 1998, when Japan's Supreme Court held that equivalents are determined by considering ( 1 ) whether the difference relates to an important claim element, ( 2 ) the possibility for substitution without causing a failure to attain an invention's object and a change in the manner of attaining it, ( 3 ) obviousness of the substitution, ( 4 ) whether the accused item is an anticipated or obvious modification of state of the art, and ( 5 ) whether estoppel exists.

Due to his close proximity with Jacques Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français ( PPF ) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaborationism, but died before the trial.

In criminal law, Antoninus introduced the important principle that accused persons are not to be treated as guilty before trial.

* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

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.

* R v Dudley and Stephens, an important trial of two men accused of shipwreck cannibalism

* The dock, the place where the accused in a criminal case stands in a British courtroom hence the expression " in the dock ", meaning on trial in court.

One might argue that the fear of stealing for most Tanzanians is morally positive, while others might argue that the accused deserves a fair trial under the law.

Three weeks later Echols and Baldwin went on trial where the prosecution accused the three of committing a Satanic murder.

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

* 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed " Ivan the Terrible " in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

The examples include the " trial of the accused adulteress ( Sotah )", the " Law of the Breaking of the Neck of the Heifer " and the application of the death penalty for the " rebellious child ".

* Habeas corpus ad deliberandum et recipiendum: a writ for bringing an accused from a different county into a court in the place where a crime had been committed for purposes of trial, or more literally to return holding the body for purposes of “ deliberation and receipt ” of a decision.

Indictable offenses are normally tried by jury, unless the accused waives the right to a jury trial.

A direct indictment is one in which the case is sent directly to trial before a preliminary inquiry is completed or when the accused has been discharged by a preliminary inquiry.

When the accused is charged with an indictable only offence, he is sent to the Crown Court for trial.

* the trial of an individual accused of heresy.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

* 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.

A criminal accused by this jury was given a trial by ordeal.

In the judiciary of Russia, for serious crimes the accused have the option of a jury trial consisting of 12 jurors.

In the United States, every person accused of a crime punishable by incarceration for more than six months has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, which arises in federal court from Article Three of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The Trial of all Crimes ... shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.

" The right was expanded with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states in part, " In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.