Sentence examples for sham proceedings from inspiring English sources

People accused of bad deeds should be tried in court — not in sham proceedings.

"Identifying who tortured our clients and what they did to them and when is an essential part of defending their interests in these sham proceedings," he said.

"This is a misguided effort, a diversion of investigative resources, and blatant effort to shut down the zealous defense of defendants at these sham proceedings at Guantánamo," he said.

"We do not believe a court in the United States of America will enforce the draconian penalties imposed on Mr Sterling in these circumstances, and indeed, we believe that preservation of Mr Sterling's constitutional rights requires that these sham proceedings be terminated in Mr Sterling's favor," the response said.

The editorial page of the Times has written repeatedly about the case, demanding that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmation of Marri's military detention be reversed: "People accused of bad deeds should be tried in court — not in sham proceedings.

But how, in the modern age, can a state put on such sham proceedings, open to the world, and get away with it?

Mr. Davis's day in court had all of the substance of what without a stretch of the imagination would be a kangaroo court, replete with sham legal proceedings.

For far too long, the state of South Dakota was unnecessarily and illegally breaking up Indian families with impunity in sham judicial proceedings.

Thus the sham transactions.

From north London comes news that May's officials rushed mob-handed to a sham wedding, stopped proceedings, quizzed the bridesmaids; only to find it was a real one.

But there was a potentially crippling problem: One of the biggest rebel groups in Syria, the Salafist brigade Ahrar al-Sham, withdrew from the proceedings just as they were concluding, leaving the negotiators without a key player.