When he stood trial for his offense he pleaded ignorance.

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

When this happens, substantial trial costs can be saved when the parties to a dispute agree to a settlement.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.

When word of his aspirations to make himself king reached the Helvetii, Orgetorix was summoned to stand trial, facing execution on the pyre should he be found guilty.

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

When trial by jury replaced this, the jury members were expected to find the insane guilty but then refer the case to the King for a Royal Pardon.

When Soliah was eventually brought to trial years later, the evidence against her was not considered by prosecutors to be a " slam dunk ," although enough to convince a jury of her guilt.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

When it failed to reach the required on its first tests the next day, it was withdrawn from the trial.

When Lucas refused Mason's demand to extradite Two Stickney back to Michigan for trial, Mason wrote to President Jackson for help, suggesting that the matter be referred to the United States Supreme Court.

When, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court extended the right to a trial by jury to defendants in state courts, it re-examined some of the standards.

When the base's Nazi leader shoots the pilot in order to silence him, Cargraves convenes a trial and find him guilty of murder.

When challenged at trial over the nature of this testing, and particularly over the fact that the testing was designed in some cases to cause death and only to measure the time which elapsed until death was caused, one Nazi doctor's defence was that, though a doctor, he was " legally appointed executioner ".

When Mullá ` Alí Basṭámí, the second Letter of the Living, was put on trial in Baghdad for preaching about the Báb, the clerics studied the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, recognized in it a claim to divine revelation, and quoted from it extensively to prove that the author had made a messianic claim.

When used, however, experiments typically follow the form of the clinical trial, where experimental units ( usually individual human beings ) are randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition and one or more outcomes are assessed.

When the verdict for the trial comes in, Amanda's plea to the jury to " judge this case as you would if the sexes were reversed " proves successful, and Doris is found not guilty.

When the English captured Joan of Arc in 1431, Beaufort presided at her trial before she was burned at the stake.

* When Nazi Germany lost the war Rudolf Höss hid on the island, but was captured there and brought to trial in Nürnberg.

When fellow mafioso Salvatore Cancemi confessed to Buscetta at a trial in 1993 that he had strangled Buscetta's two sons, Buscetta forgave him saying that he knew that he could not have refused the order.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

When he returns to Thebes, he is again put on trial, and again acquitted.

The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.

When speaking about the reals, sometimes it means " all reals but a set of Lebesgue measure zero " ( formally, almost everywhere ).

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten formally proposed the plan on 3 June 1947, Patel gave his approval and lobbied Nehru and other Congress leaders to accept the proposal.

When the idea was first formally proposed to the state ’ s legislators, all of whom were men, it was overwhelmingly resisted.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

When Roberts formally annexed the Transvaal on 3 September, the Salisbury ministry, emboldened by the apparent victory in South Africa, asked for the dissolution of Parliament, with an election set for October.

When the GNP & BR was formally opened on 15 December 1906, the line ran from the Great Northern Railway's station at to the District Railway's station at.

When Ohio became the first in the Northwest Territory to gain statehood in 1803, the state ’ s northern border claimed this important area, even though the boundaries of the Michigan Territory when it was formally organized in 1805 also included this area.

When a wizard nears death – which they know some time in advance – he formally passes on his staff to a newborn wizard.

When Nobles County was formally created by the Minnesota legislature on May 23, 1857, Gretchtown was brielfy designated as the county seat of Nobles County, a county at that time without any residents.

Change of Name: When the site was surveyed in December 1879, Airlie was formally rechristened DeForest.

When the town was incorporated in 1763, Governor Benning Wentworth formally recognized the long-used name of New Boston.

When William of Wykeham founded the College, he formally agreed to maintain the City Wall when he acquired the land on which to build the College.

When Valley View formally incorporated in 1980, it had 514 inhabitants and six businesses.

When Gen. Greene formally assumed command on December 3, 1780, Kościuszko's services were retained, employed as Greene's chief engineer.

When the jury found him not guilty, the public shouted their approval so loudly and for so long that it was another half an hour before the proceedings could be formally closed.

When Lenihan refused, Haughey formally advised President Hillery to dismiss Lenihan as Tánaiste, Minister for Defence and member of the cabinet, which the President as constitutionally required duly did.

When Mussolini formally declared war on France, he wrote in his diary " I am sad, very sad.

When Parliament reconvened on January 14, 1766, the Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal.

When none was forthcoming ( merely an ambiguous message from de Valera that could be interpreted as partially blaming McNeill for attending functions that ministers had been invited to ), he published his correspondence with de Valera, even though de Valera had formally advised him not to do so.

When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.

When Rose returned for another tour months later, Bonham was formally invited by the singer to drum for his band, which gave him a regular income.

When Germany's assault on the Soviet Union began in June 1941, Finland remained formally neutral until Soviet air raids gave an expected reason to fulfill the invasion plans some days later.