Word: trialing
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...lives became intertwined in June 2005 after Jackson was cleared of charges that he molested a 13-year-old boy in California. That trial left Jackson, once one of the world's wealthiest entertainers, in financial tatters. Al Khalifa offered Jackson refuge in his oil-rich Gulf state and, the sheik's lawyer said, footed Jackson's $2.2 million legal bill...
Recognizing that women were being denied the right to a fair trial, she said she looked to international human rights standards as a model for her legal strategy and then scoured Nigerian and Islamic law for similar statues in order to secure due process and avoid execution by stoning for women accused of adultery...
...Ridker said that since this the study examined healthy individuals, researchers generally anticipate low short-term rates of disease. He added that the effect was “so striking between active therapy and placebo that an independent monitoring board felt compelled to stop the trial early, also resulting in low event rates...
...last obstacle is a consideration of the rights of pirates. Unlike in past centuries, individuals can no longer be captured for piracy, tried on a ship, and then hanged. Now suspected pirates must go on trial first, but where the trial is held becomes an issue when a citizen of one country attacks a ship of another country and is stopped by a naval ship of a third country in the territorial waters of a fourth country. The British Foreign Office has concluded that holding pirates indefinitely can infringe on their human rights and give them a case for asylum...
...since the start of Saddam Hussein's trial have Iraqis been so transfixed by a legal and legislative debate. The to-and-fro over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the U.S. has turned parliamentary politics into prime-time entertainment. In restaurants and caf?s across Baghdad, TV screens normally featuring music videos and Arabic soap operas are instead tuned to Iraqi news channels that seem at times to be devoted exclusively to the SOFA story. It's democracy as reality...