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Discover LudwigThe phrase "penal trial" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a legal proceeding in which a person's guilt or innocence is determined and a sentence is imposed. For example: "The defendant was found guilty by a penal trial and sentenced to three years in prison."
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The guide explains how the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the powerful Vatican office that handles cases of priestly abuse, can authorize a local bishop to pursue various procedures against a priest accused of abuse, including a judicial penal trial.
Judge Magi wrote that in 30 years as a penal judge, he had "very rarely" heard testimony "so precise, attentive and correct regarding such difficult and serious investigations," adding that he had never seen a penal trial in which events had been reconstructed with such "certainty" and "such a degree of authority".
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Some 1,000 persons were deported to the penal islands without trial.
It's a way station for those awaiting trial, a penal colony for the poor and the criminal, the unlucky and the fucked, a void of misery that it's hard to believe sits in the middle of America's richest metropolis.
Latin America modernised its penal codes and made trials more transparent.
It gives the example of photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as Shawkan, who spent more than two years in jail before standing trial – violating the penal code's two-year cap on pretrial detention.
Show trials, forced confessions, penal colonies, re-education camps, humiliation rituals, secrecy and spying are the sacraments observed by the "church" of Scientology, according to Wright, a New Yorker staff writer who previously won a Pulitzer Prize for his penetrating look into another secretive movement, al-Qaida.
RETZ's next project sounds just as ambitious, which will be an attempt at staging Kafka's The Trial and In The Penal Colony told in real-time across London, broken up into three productions.
Were the relevant paragraph of the penal code scrapped before Böhmermann goes on trial, the chancellor would look even more exposed.
Examples of the international context at that time are that in the Australian penal system, a prison based randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of methadone maintenance had just been published [ 7].
Both systems, however, involve penal labor and often do not allow trials or judicial hearings.
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