A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.
When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.
It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.