Finding Kidd politically useless, the Tory leaders sent him to stand trial before the High Court of Admiralty in London for the charges of piracy on high seas and the murder of William Moore.

About 119 people are currently facing trial, including journalists for defamation and opposition party leaders for treason.

The leaders were put on trial, but the verdicts only skirted the perimeter of the conspiracy.

" Hitler thus intended to prevent internal friction like that occurring earlier in Poland in 1939, when several German Army generals had attempted to bring Einsatzgruppen leaders to trial for the murders they had committed.

* 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.

Gustave Gilbert, an American Army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who stood trial.

Altogether, 14 Czechoslovak Communist leaders, 11 of them Jewish, were tried, convicted, and executed ( see Slánský trial ).

* 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. Federal Government.

The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually do it.

On 30 June 2004, Saddam Hussein, held in custody by U. S. forces at the U. S. base " Camp Cropper ", along with 11 other senior Ba ' athist leaders, were handed over legally ( though not physically ) to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offences.

* January 23 – In Moscow, seventeen 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.

In 1917, one hundred and sixty-five IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act ; one hundred and one went on trial before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1918.

In 1981, the four deposed leaders were subjected to a show trial and convicted of anti-party activities.

Although the old parliamentary leaders were released without trial on February 26, 1994, they would not play an open role in politics thereafter.

The leaders ' treatment, including the trial judge's dismissal of the use of Welsh and their subsequent imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs, led to " The Three " becoming a cause célèbre.

Hutu Rwandan genocidal leaders are on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the Rwandan National Court system, and, most recently, through the informal Gacaca programme.

During his Freikorps period, he was on intimate terms with the people such as Horst von Pflugk-Harttung who were accused of political assassinations of leaders of the left, and was even accused himself, although later acquitted, of being involved in the assassinations and other crimes ( such as his alleged involvement in Rosa Luxembourg's " trial ").

The press was more strongly censored, detention without trial was reintroduced, and Doctrinaire leaders, such as François Guizot, were banned from teaching at the École Normale Supérieure.

The eight strike leaders arrested on June 17 were eventually brought to trial.

The arrests were part of a trick employed by the NKVD, which flew the leaders to Moscow for a later show trial followed by sentencing to a gulag.

In January 1793, whilst visiting Paris during the trial of Louis XVI, Brunel unwisely publicly predicted the demise of Robespierre, one of the leaders of the Revolution.

Hopes for a new free start were immediately dampened when the PKWN claimed they were entitled to choose who they wanted to take part in the government, and the Soviet NKVD seized sixteen Polish underground leaders who had wanted to participate in negotiations on the reorganization in March 1945 brought them to the Soviet Union for a show trial in June.

Thereafter, the PCR eliminated the role of the centrist parties, including a show trial of National Peasant Party leaders, and forced other parties to merge with the PCR.

" When the trial came, Theramenes ' numerous political allies were among the leaders of the faction seeking the generals ' conviction.

In November 1938, just two months after the founding congress of the Fourth International, seven members of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) on trial in Barcelona declared their support for a " fighting Fifth International ".

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.

In the case of new evidence, there must be a high probability that its presence or absence would have made a material difference in the trial.

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.

A critical stage is " any stage of the prosecution, formal or informal, in court or out, where counsel's absence might derogate from the accused's right to a fair trial.

In 1998, Bordeaux's appeal court decided that Sergio Tornaghi could not be extradited to Italy, on the grounds that Italian procedure would not let him be judged again, after a trial during his absence.

In 1202, Gerald was accused of stirring up the Welsh to rebellion and was put on trial, but the trial came to nothing in consequence of the absence of the principal judges.

His opponents were eager to have Alcibiades ' trial in his absence when he could not defend himself.

Her absence from India becomes a major issue at the trial, where Aziz's legal defenders assert that her testimony alone, had it been available, would have proven the accused's innocence.

Through the absence of its members trial, I find myself the head of a conspiracy I have never been aware of.

Trial by combat ( also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel ) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat ; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.

The historian Robert Finlay has criticized Davis ' conclusions, arguing that Bertrande was duped ( as most of her contemporaries believed, including the trial judges ) after her husband's long absence.

Since there were no further instructions required to be given by the defendant to his own counsel, the judge ruled that the trial would proceed in the defendant's absence, and after summing up, he sent the jury to deliberate.

While the Doctor did become President in The Deadly Assassin, assumed the role in The Invasion of Time and was appointed once again as President in The Five Doctors, by the time of his sixth incarnation's trial in The Trial of a Time Lord he had been removed from office due to his absence.

( 2010 ) who performed a double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial, to compare the efficacy, tolerability, and neuropsychological effects of ethosuximide, valproic acid, and lamotrigine in children with newly diagnosed childhood absence epilepsy.

Nor is it easily known how long a medication must be continued before an off-medication trial should be conducted to determine whether the individual has outgrown the absence seizures, as is often the case in children.

No person may be tried in absence, unless the court is satisfied that the charged person's failure to attend the trial is deliberate.

If a person has been sentenced to death in a civilian court, the commission must consider a report on the case written by the judge who presided at the trial, or, in the event of absence of that judge, by the Chief Justice.

Based on detailed study of his notebooks a number of scholars have pointed out that Edison generally resorted to trial and error in the absence of adequate theories.

In general, it is reversible error to proceed with a criminal trial in the absence of a previous trial transcript, when such contains pertinent information that should have been considered in the new trial.

Officially absolved in 1947, he expressed regret at the absence of a formal trial.

A trial court may infer that a defendant's absence from trial is voluntary and constitutes a waiver if a defendant had personal knowledge of the time of the proceeding, the right to be present, and had received a warning that the proceeding would take place in their absence if they failed to appear.