"a swift trial" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a trial that is quick, efficient, and does not take a long time. Example: The judge promised the defendant a swift trial, assuring that justice would be served without unnecessary delays.
"If they get a swift trial and prevail on most counts against the former governor, all but the most vociferous Fitzgerald critics will be quickly quieted".
See articleAfter a swift trial a prominent academic in China, Ilham Tohti, was sentenced to life for supporting separatism in Xinjiang.
That action also ended in arrest and a two-week imprisonment in Greenland before a swift trial that saw them released and allowed home.
The journalist, Ogulsapar Muradova, 58, had been sentenced to six years in prison on Aug. 28, after a swift trial in which she had no lawyer.
But while the Delhi student's attackers did receive a swift trial after nationwide protests and intense media scrutiny, other victims have been virtually ignored, either because they are too poor to fight or because their cases were not 'brutal' or 'shocking' enough to merit the same media and public attention.
Despite the reference to a swift trial, many with knowledge of the case assumed the person in question was Hedges, even though he had already been held for more than four months at that point.
Several hundred survivors of the Bosnian war gathered in Sarajevo to urge the court not to allow General Mladic to mock it and to pursue a fair and swift trial.
The Rev. Allan B. Ramirez, pastor of the Brookville Reformed Church, who has been advising the victims of the attack, said, "What's most important at this point is that we have a speedy and swift trial because these two men have suffered enough already".
The SWIFT trial aims to compare five (including a control group) different ways of helping people to follow one of several possible dietary and exercise combinations, a choice that we believe should enhance adherence and thus success with weight management.
To assess the recanalisation rates and long-term functional outcomes of the Solitaire and Trevo devices; to compare these results to those from the Solitaire With the Intention For Thrombectomy (SWIFT) trial and TREVO 2 studies; and to assess for statistical differences in the outcomes between the two devices.
The Solitaire Flow Restoration (FR) (ev3/Covidien, Irvine, CA) is a self-expanding, fully retrievable stent that obtained FDA approval in March 2012 based on the results of the Solitaire with the Intention for Thrombectomy (SWIFT) trial.
