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 ).

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

To convict the accused, a two-thirds majority of the senators present is required.

While Puritans expected mothers to care for their young children tenderly, a mother who doted could be accused of failing to keep God present.

Politicians past and present have been accused of short-sightedness in speculating that they would.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

Confronted with this sharp increase in deposed suits, Belgium established the condition that the accused person must be Belgian or present in Belgium.

:( a ) subjective, where the court must be satisfied that the accused actually had the requisite mental element present in his or her mind at the relevant time ( for purposely, knowingly, recklessly etc ) ( see concurrence );

Moreover, if there is an irrebuttable presumption of doli incapax-that is, that the accused did not have sufficient understanding of the nature and quality of his actionsthen the requisite mens rea is absent no matter what degree of probability might otherwise have been present.

Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court.

However, since his benefactor Maecenas was a native Etruscan, Virgil portrayed Mezentius as a tyrant, attributing to him personally the evils which the Greek authors had previously accused the Etruscans of, such as torture and savagery, an ethnic prejudice already present in the Homeric Hymns.

It establishes rights to a speedy trial, to counsel, against self-incrimination, and for the accused to be present and call and examine witnesses.

He was present at the battle of Langside, and was accused of having advised Mary to leave Dunbar to her ruin, and of having betrayed to her enemies the casket letters.

106 Derg officials were accused of genocide during the trials, but only 36 of them were present in the court.

On March 26, General Komarov, Chief of the Gendarmery Department, informed the Police Department: " Pursuant to the request from Mykolaj Kybalchych, the son of the priest, who is accused of high treason, I have the honor to present hereby his design of an aeronautic device.

::( a ) subjective where the court must be satisfied that the accused actually had the requisite mental element present in his or her mind at the relevant time ( see concurrence );

* a claim that some biological factor present in the defendant provides a defense against the accused crimes, as in the so-called Twinkie defense.

Israel was accused of using " chemical warfare " to sterilize West Bank women while IDF sources speculated that a toxic substance had been employed by Palestinian militants to stir up unrest but investigators concluded that even if some " environmental irritant " had originally been present, the wave of complaints was ultimately a product of mass hysteria.

For example, in some states a parent or guardian must be present during police questioning, or their names may be kept confidential when they are accused of a crime.

Such criticism has continued up to present times, with the énarques being accused of monopolizing positions in higher administration and politics without having to show real competence.

The burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which has to collect and present enough compelling evidence to convince the trier of fact, who is restrained and ordered by law to consider only actual evidence and testimony that is legally admissible, and in most cases lawfully obtained, that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Ironically: the same people who were, for decades, stigmatised as ultra-Croatian " linguistic nationalists " ( Stjepan Babić, Dalibor Brozović, Radoslav Katičić, Miro Kačić ) have been accused as pro-Serbian " political linguists " simply because they opposed these " language purges " that wanted to kick out numerous words of Church Slavonic origin ( which are common not only to Croatian and Serbian, but are also present in Polish, Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages ).

... That a judge might be influenced by a desire to placate the accusing newspaper to retain public esteem and secure reelection at the cost of unfair rulings against an accused is too remote a possibility to be considered a clear and present danger to justice.

It also stated that every State is entitled " to investigate, prosecute and punish or extradite individuals accused of torture, who are present in a territory under its jurisdiction.