It is now impossible to read this Preface as anything but a trial run, so to speak, of his trial; indeed, these were the very arguments he fielded, initially with great success, in the dock against Edward Carson at the disastrous first libel trial of 1895.
Mr. Ani, who had upset Judge Mohammed Oraibi al-Khalifa with an outburst at his previous trial, refused to speak on Sunday.
Also on trial, so to speak, will be the new Stadium's attendance figures in this era of economic anxiety, and renewals on those new corporate luxury boxes (grand luxe, perhaps, at a half million dollars and up per season).
Kirk Rutter, one of the participants in the trial, agreed to speak with us about his experiences.
Although he defended himself at trial, he declined to speak today.
Dr. Murray did not testify at the trial and declined to speak at his sentencing hearing as well.
The law gave those accused of being fugitive slaves no right to a trial or even to speak in self-defense.
The part of his summation that eventually drew the disapproval of the appellate court, concerning Mr. Wilson's path to trial and opportunity to speak without cross-examination, seemed at the time like so much lawyerly inside baseball, the sour grapes of one too many heated sidebars.
After the trial, Joseph refused to speak to her and returned her letters unopened (a period she characterizes as "the Big Freeze" or "the Mondo Froideur"), and, despite the odd reconciliation, the two weren't speaking at the time of his death.
JANE MAYER: I think the Obama Administration would have done a lot better if they got Jon Stewart and several dozen other real New Yorkers, including some of the 9/11 families who also favored holding the trial in NY, to speak up a little earlier.
