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 ).

Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.

Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

`` You are to be accused of Arianism to confuse the religious who remain loyal ''.

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.

There is much to be said for such a college -- and Dartmouth men have been accused of saying it too often and too loudly.

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

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.

" In fairness to an accused, if, after consultation with his defense counsel, he knowingly and intelligently determines that his best interest is served by an Alford-type guilty plea, he should be free to choose this path.

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.

This change was disparaged by critics as an end to the ' right to silence ', though in fact an accused still has the right to remain silent and cannot be compelled to take the stand.

Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).

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.

Under Federal Court Rules, Rules 466, and Rule 467 a person who is accused of Contempt needs to be first served with a contempt order and then appear in court to answer the charges.

Generally a party will be accused of indirect contempt by the party for whose benefit the order was entered.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.

In consequence of the accusation of Claudia Pulchra, and of some offense which he had given to Caligula, he was accused by the emperor in the senate, but by concealing his own skill in speaking, and pretending to be overpowered by the eloquence of Caligula, he not only escaped the danger, but was made consul suffectus in 39 AD.

He accused Hoxha of being responsible for the decline in relations with Yugoslavia, and stated that a Soviet military mission should be expelled in favor of a Yugoslav counterpart.

At Nancy, General Bouillé successfully put down one such rebellion, only to be accused of being anti-revolutionary for doing so.