"In any such proceedings we would need input from incumbents and competitors alike".
On Monday, he closed the trial to reporters and invoked a law that makes it "unlawful for any person to print or publish any matter in relation to any such proceedings, except with the previous permission of the court".
Criminal prosecutions against fans will surely be considered by local authorities, but as a prosecutor for more than 30 years, I know that any such proceedings will be slow and are likely to be eluded altogether by many deserving to share the responsibility.
Worse still, the girl's grandfather was said to have "expressed an indignation approaching to frenzy at the indignity offered to the honour of his family by such proceedings, and had declared his intention of proceeding to the Mecca Masjid [the principal mosque of the city]" where he threatened to raise the Muslims of the Deccan against the British.
Such proceedings generate no sense of detachment.
But such proceedings may often be limited, legal experts said, by statutes of limitations.
Take-charge moms, who tend to hijack such proceedings, would be redundant here.
Meanwhile, the use of oaths in such proceedings has multiplied as well.
Stewart cited such proceedings as proof that he had committed no crime.
After the Second World War, the American military government in Germany conducted hundreds of such proceedings.
