The phrase "a denial of due process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a situation where an individual is not afforded the fair treatment and legal rights they are entitled to under the law.
Example: "The court found that the defendant's rights were violated, constituting a denial of due process."
Alternatives: "a violation of due process" or "an infringement of due process".
In a typical bravura touch, Fischetti and the appellate specialist Diarmuid White called the first point in their brief "The Imprisonment of Charles Schwarz Is a Denial of Due Process Because He Is Actually Innocent".
But America's values ought not to have become casualties of Mr Bush's war on terror.The indefinite incarceration of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay without trial was a denial of due process.
Mr. Mirkarimi's lawyers contend in legal documents that the episode occurred before Mr. Mirkarimi assumed office and therefore cannot be the basis for suspension, that his suspension for a misdemeanor that does not constitute moral turpitude is a denial of due process, and that the language of the City Charter defining "official misconduct" is unconstitutionally vague.
In a 1983 decision, for example, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled: "A jury has no more 'right' to find a 'guilty' defendant 'not guilty' than it has to find a 'not guilty' defendant 'guilty.'...Such verdicts are lawless, a denial of due process and constitute an exercise of erroneously seized power".
Unfortunately, based on the performance of the non-lawyers I observed representing prisoners at the U.S.-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, that amounts to a denial of due process for prisoners in indefinite U.S. detention.
That effort is welcome, but it will fully succeed only if the administration recognizes that the problem with Guantanamo isn't just its location, but that the prison has become a symbol of a denial of due process.
Of course, no real subversion of justice would be complete without a wholesale denial of due process for the defense.
Using immigration as a fallback position in lieu of our criminal justice system may be expedient, but it inevitably amounts to denial of due process.
Much has been written about the denial of due process for the five plaintiffs who claim to have been victims of the extraordinary-rendition program.
Such wholesale denial of due process is what the soft-on-terror professional hysteric had called "the seizure of dictatorial power".
