Sentence examples for system of trial from inspiring English sources

The law created a separate, substandard and clearly unconstitutional system of trial and punishment for foreigners.

As constituted, the jury system of trial before one's peers does not work in a country lacking racial homogeneity.

The ancestor to the duel is the early medieval system of trial by ordeal – physical tests of endurance which determined guilt and innocence.

"With Jury Duty, No Trial After All" [Opinion, Nov. 19] reflects the fact that the American system of trial by jury is unique.

As no one among the Pirahãs could speak any other language, Everett had to construct a painstaking system of trial and error.

But the attack on our justice system by those philosophically opposed to the death penalty should be balanced by a recognition that our system of trial by jury and judicial review is just.

The government also argues at some length that its interests in reducing the process available to alleged enemy combatants are heightened by the practical difficulties that would accompany a system of trial-like process.

In February 2002, he introduced a bill that would have established a system of trials for suspected Al Qaeda detainees.

"Criminal justice today," he observed, "is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials".

At Defense, the hastily drawn order must be translated into a system of trials that would not be invalidated by a Supreme Court.

"Criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority.