Sentence examples for ludicrous trial from inspiring English sources

And this week saw the culmination of a ludicrous trial on charges of sodomy of the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim (whose coalition won the popular vote, though not a majority of seats, in last year's general election).

Anyway, that brings me to episode one of The People v OJ Simpson, FX's noble attempt to make some sense of the ludicrous trial of the former NFL star for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Why had he agreed to this ludicrous show trial?

They similarly misread the public in 1998-99 witheireir ludicrous impeachment trial, which a large majority of Americans thought a waste of time.

Khodorkovsky's arrest, in 2003, followed by two ludicrous show trials and imprisonment in the Far East, was Putin's most blatant demonstration of power to the class of oligarchs that had made its fortune in the legal vacuum of the nineties.

On April 10 there was a ludicrous update in the trial, when the prosecution came to court presenting a video that was supposed to be the basis of their case but consisted of family photos, trotting horses, and Somali refugees in Kenya.

This is a familiar gambit -- the government sends out a ludicrous first draft as a trial balloon, then makes cosmetic concessions and ends up with the draconian measure it intended all along.

As with most Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the plot of Trial by Jury is ludicrous, but the characters behave as if the events were perfectly reasonable.

The families of all three have waited months as during this trial you took every point from the ludicrous to the bizarre".

He is on trial for fraud and money-laundering - charges he has described as ludicrous and as lies.

In one ludicrous case, an assistant district attorney actually left on vacation in the middle of a trial she was working on.