Sentence examples for arraigned for trial from inspiring English sources

The Spoletans were so driven by hate for Formosus that they effected an unprecedented council (897) at which Formosus' corpse was disinterred and arraigned for trial.

Oh, yes, and would you believe that Jeffrey Archer is at the Haymarket in his own courtroom drama, "The Accused," playing a surgeon arraigned for murder at a time when he himself is awaiting trial for perjury?

Spacey is evidently fascinated by this figure, having previously played him in a television movie and in Trevor Nunn's production of Inherit the Wind about the 1925 "Monkey Trial" in which Darrow defended a Tennessee teacher arraigned for giving lessons about evolution.

Based on the Scopes monkey trial of 1925, when a Tennessee teacher was arraigned for reading a passage from On the Origin of Species to his pupils, the piece itself by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee is shaky stuff: the real pleasure comes from watching Kevin Spacey and David Troughton going head to head for the defence and prosecution.

Once we have gotten over the big gimmick -- we're a jury deciding the fate of a doctor arraigned for murder, at a time when the performer himself is awaiting trial for perjury he is charged with committing when he successfully sued a London tabloid for libel 13 years ago -- we're bound to ask whether we're watching a tense, inventive courtroom drama.

Mr. Ghailani, who is believed to be in his mid-30s, was arraigned for the first time in New York on June 9, weeks after President Obama announced he would be sent for trial as part of the effort to close Guantánamo.

He was arraigned for treason.

But you cannot be arraigned for murdering a corpse.

Sima Qian was arraigned for "defaming the emperor," a capital crime.

Many of Egypt's most dynamic businessmen have fled, fearing they will be arraigned for complicity with Mr Mubarak.

At 1 30 am on November 23 he was formally arraigned for the murder of President Kennedy.