A factorial randomized trial of 579 UK patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain, reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that patients who received Alexander Technique lessons reported afterwards having less back pain and significant improvement in their quality of life.

The first large-scale trial evaluating the efficacy of BCG was conducted from 1956 to 1963, and involved 54, 239 school children who received BCG at the age of 14 or 15 ; this study showed an efficacy of 84 % up to five years after immunization.

Vulović's confession came at trial where he said he received orders signed by Serbia's top military officer to send Malobabic into Austria-Hungary just before the assassination.

While awaiting trial, he received a $ 2, 500 bonus check.

And after the trial, Janet Reno received a letter from the jury.

Supporters and opponents disagreed on the appropriateness of the death penalty, his guilt, and whether he received a fair trial.

The case received national attention, with the New York Times publishing an article on the trial on January 20, 1853.

The first trial on 11 and 12 May failed but on the 13th the mast at Lavernock was extended to and the signals, in Morse code, were received clearly.

As a result of the trial, John Barker, Jim Greenfield, Hilary Creek and Anna Mendleson received prison sentences of 10 years.

The Sheepman previewed in October 1925, but it received poor reviews and closed after its trial run in Connecticut.

He was finally brought to trial in 65 BC, where he received the support of many distinguished men, including many consulars.

However, samples had been distributed to a number of physicians as part of a clinical trial, in which 20, 000 patients in the United States received thalidomide.

This time is chronicled in the novel Cain's Book, which at the time became something of a sensation, being an honest study of heroin addiction with descriptions of sex and drug use that got it banned in Britain, where the book was the subject of an obscenity trial ; in America, however, it received favourable reviews.

The practice had been known in Boston since 1706, when Cotton Mather ( of Salem witch trial fame ) discovered that his slave, Onesimus had been inoculated while still in Africa and that many slaves imported to Boston had also received inoculations.

The five captured Inca generals received a summary trial and were sentenced to death by hanging.

After the trial, Whistler received a commission to do twelve etchings in Venice.

Following Malfit's arrest and trial, Walton examines the doctor's ledgers and realized that his wife and many of her friends are listed as having received ' personal services.

In 1983 charges were laid in the McMartin preschool trial, a major case in California, which received attention throughout the United States, and contained allegations of satanic ritual abuse.

Athena ( also known as Areia ) received him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranged a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges.

He received comparatively mild treatment because Goebbels intended that he be made the subject of a propaganda show trial, to prove the complicity of " international Jewry " in the vom Rath murder.

Australian soldiers Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock were shot by a British firing squad in South Africa on February 27, 1902, for alleged war crimes during the Boer War ; questions have since been raised as to whether they received a fair trial.

The prisoners were returned to London for trial, and the Transvaal government received considerable compensation from the Company.

Former Mayor Burke filed suit, and following a bench trial, the trial court rejected Burke's challenge and declared Bennett elected as the qualified candidate who received the highest number of votes.

Fortunately, the Scottsboro defendants benefited from their two landmark triumphs in the United States Supreme Court mostly from the fact that they were all relieved from their death sentences they received at their first trial in Scottsboro.

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.

In almost every case, Jews were murdered, sometimes by a mob, sometimes following torture and a trial.

When their conduct proved unsatisfactory, they were almost invariably brought to trial and exiled or executed, and their property was confiscated.

Appeals are treated almost as new trials, and three degrees of trial are present.

There is not a United States constitutional right under the Seventh Amendment to a jury trial in state courts, but in practice, almost every state except Louisiana, which has a civil law legal tradition, permits jury trials in civil cases in state courts on substantially the same basis that they are allowed under the Seventh Amendment in federal court.

Even more than earlier Moscow show trials, Bukharin's trial horrified many previously sympathetic observers as they watched allegations become more absurd than ever and the purge expand to include almost every living Old Bolshevik leader except Stalin.

The two stages of the procedure ran in the reverse order from that used under almost any trial system — here it is as if a jury are first asked " Do you want to find someone guilty?

The inferior courts conduct almost all trial proceedings.

The Guardian reported that " some of his trial times were almost unbelievable ," and Nurmi went on to train at the Olympic Village in Los Angeles despite his injury.

Literary critic Richard Ellmann writes: Wilde does not name the book but at his trial he conceded that it was, or almost, Huysmans's A Rebours ... To a correspondent he wrote that he had played a ' fantastic variation ' upon A Rebours and some day must write it down.

He also made it a point to be aboard during the initial sea trial of almost every nuclear submarine completing its new-construction period, and by his presence both set his stamp of personal integrity that the ship was ready for the rigors of the open seas, and ensured adequate testing to either prove as much or to establish issues requiring resolution.

A grand jury, a type of jury now confined almost exclusively to federal courts and some state jurisdictions in the United States, determines whether there is enough evidence for a criminal trial to go forward.

But, in practice, all states but Louisiana, preserve the right to a jury trial in almost all civil cases where the sole remedy sought is money damages to the same extent as jury trials are permitted by the 7th Amendment, although sometimes jury trials are not allowed in small claims cases.

This was a very rare coin, almost a trial piece, but it did circulate so successfully that demand could not be met.

After his trial, the Shipman Inquiry chaired by Dame Janet Smith, begun on 1 September 2000 and lasting almost two years, investigated all deaths certified by Shipman.

At Adair's trial in 1995, the prosecuting lawyer said he was dedicated to his cause against those whom he " regarded as militant republicans – among whom he had lumped almost the entire Roman Catholic population ".

) Robinson, on the other hand, faced pressure to plead guilty to avoid an almost certain death sentence in Missouri, and failing that, yet another capital murder trial back in Kansas.

The trial lasted almost three years, and its violation of the forms of justice is still the subject of frequent monographs by members of the French bar.

Since the charges brought against Manstein were almost identical to those brought against Rundstedt, it is worth quoting the remarks made by the prosecutor at Manstein's trial, Sir Arthur Comyns Carr: " Contemporary German militarism flourished briefly with its recent ally, National Socialism, as well as or better than it had in the generals of the past.

" Hannah Arendt in her study of the " trial " of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, notes that the accused, as with almost all his fellow Germans, had lost track of his conscience to the point where they hardly remembered it ; this wasn't caused by familiarity with atrocities or by psychologically redirecting any resultant natural pity to themselves for having to bear such an unpleasant duty, so much as by the fact that anyone whose conscience did develop doubts could see no one who shared them: " Eichmann did not need to close his ears to the voice of conscience ... not because he had none, but because his conscience spoke with a " respectable voice ", with the voice of the respectable society around him ".

Therefore, most cases go to trial, including cases where the prosecution is almost sure to gain a conviction, whereas, in countries such as the United States, these would be settled by plea bargain.

According to trial testimony, he wrote almost nothing.

During trial for forgery, his defense attorney almost had his case dismissed by arguing that he had " created " the fake checks and not forged them, but his charges were instead reduced to swindling and fraud.

Despite the possibility of two venues for trial, almost all criminal cases, however serious, commence in the Magistrates ' Courts.

Castlehaven's trial aroused continuing public debate, witnesses were almost certainly suborned, he maintained his innocence to the last, the jury was split on both charges, almost evenly on the sodomy charge, and the case remains of interest to some as an early trial concerning male homosexuality.