Word: trialing
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...They're not going to shoot us; it's not Iraq. We might have to pay a fine and serve a little time in jail.' TED STEVENS, Alaska Senator, caught on a taped phone conversation played during his corruption trial...
...matters relating to academic transgressions. Simply put, the Ad Board does not allow students to fully present their side of the story and prepare an adequate defense. This renders the Ad Board a mere kangaroo court, whose rulings are clear before it convenes. Beyond the injustice of the trial itself, the Ad Board suffers additional shortcomings of membership and “sentencing.” Members of the Ad Board are often divorced from the proceedings, since many of them skip hearings related to student discipline. The Ad Board’s punishments are “one-size...
First, from a pragmatic point of view, Chambers could not have hoped to achieve much by way of reform with his stunt. As a state senator, Chambers is already in a position to push for initiatives that could reform too-liberal legal conceptions of what makes a trial worth holding. The senator’s lawsuit served only to exacerbate the problem against which he was supposedly campaigning...
...more than a surprise when Khartoum announced last week that it had, in fact, been holding Ali Kushayb for several months and that he would be put on trial. "The timing of this particular claim about an arrest is certainly interesting," says Christopher Hall, head of Amnesty International's International Justice Project. Sudan claims that the investigation into Kushayb gained speed after a special prosecutor was appointed in August. But Hall and many others suspect that Ali Kushayb's trial - if it ever happens - is just the Sudanese government's latest gambit in what has become a full-blown campaign...
...haven't actually seen anything formal," Hall says of Ali Kushayb's trial. "One of the things that Amnesty International is asking for immediately is that Sudan permit a trial observer to attend the proceedings and for a copy of the charges and any other court documents related to the case." On Tuesday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch derided Sudan's domestic investigations into the Darfur conflict as nothing more than "window dressing." The group's Africa director, Georgette Gagnon, said that Sudan was clearly trying to block the ICC's work. "No one should be fooled...