The phrase "a fictional trial" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a trial that is not real, often found in literature, movies, or hypothetical discussions.
Example: "In the novel, the author presents a fictional trial that explores the moral dilemmas faced by the characters."
Alternatives: "an imaginary trial" or "a made-up trial".
He retreated to his country home in Grantchester, near Cambridge, reëmerging nine months later with "The Accused," a play that placed him at the center of a fictional trial while he was preparing for a genuine one.
It sets up a fictional trial involving a shooting during a convenience store robbery, cutting between courtroom scenes and visits with researchers and legal scholars who are working on the front edge of this world.
His tenure has established the Tricycle as a leading political theatre, best known for its "tribunal" verbatim plays such as The Colour of Justice, a staged version of the 1999 Stephen Lawrence inquiry, and 2007's Called to Account, a fictional trial of Tony Blair over his actions in Iraq.
These studies mainly involved use of a single abstract of a fictional trial.
McCann's book combines the story of the famous tightrope walk between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit in 1974, captured in the lauded film Man on Wire, with the fictional trial of a New York prostitute.
When Patikas saw the drawings made of the fictional trial by a real court artist, she said, "She hasn't been able to have her highlights done in prison, has she?" And, "So that's what I'd look like if I was thinner".
The novel Clouds of Witness (1926) by Dorothy L. Sayers depicts in the House of Lords the fictional trial of a duke who is accused, and eventually acquitted, of murder.
Unlike a fictional murder trial with one man's life on the line, should the U.S. attack Syria many, many people will lose their lives.
In a (fictional) clinical trial a PROM is used with a score range from 0 to 100.
Mr. Uris told the story in his seventh novel, "QB VII" (1970), the name taken from Queen's Bench, Courtroom No. 7, where the fictional trial takes place; it became a best seller and was adapted in 1974 as a television movie.
He joined Granada TV at its launch in 1956 and was also responsible for shows such as What the Papers Say, A Family at War and The Verdict is Yours, a series of fictional trials improvised by the actors and featuring a real jury.
