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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.