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oyer and terminer oyer and terminer
oyer and terminer. After the Assizes of Clarendon and Northampton, the commission of oyer and terminer was issued to the travelling justices to visit the shire and to receive the presentments of those suspected of crime in each hundred. They were instructed to hear and determine (oyer and terminer)... Read more
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Claus Von Bulow Trials: 1982 & 1985 Defendant: Claus Von BulowCrime Charged: Attempted murderChief Defense Lawyers: First trial: John Sheenan and Herold Price Fahringer; second trial: Thomas P. Puccio and John SheehanChief Prosecutors: First trial: Stephen Famiglietti and Susan McGuirl;... Read more
peine forte et dure peine forte et dure
peine forte et dure. After the Lateran Council of the church in 1215 forbade the clergy to take part in ordeals, the king's justices had no means of trying the guilt or innocence of suspected criminals. After a number of experiments they developed the trial jury of twelve men to decide. Since this... Read more
Arachne Arachne
Arachne , in Greek mythology, a Lydian woman who challenged Athena to a trial of skill in weaving. When Arachne won, the goddess forced Arachne to hang herself. Athena then turned Arachne into a spider and her weaving into a cobweb.... Read more
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Trial by Ordeal Trial by Ordeal
trial by ordeal was used to decide the guilt or innocence of a suspected criminal by invoking divine justice. There were several forms of ordeal in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. In one the accused held a red hot iron or put his hand in a flame. The hand was then bound up and examined after several... Read more
Kangaroo Court Kangaroo Court
KANGAROO COURT [ Slang of U.S. origin.] An unfair, biased, or hasty judicial proceeding that ends in a harsh punishment; an unauthorized trial conducted by individuals who have taken the law into their own hands, such as those put on by vigilantes or prison inmates; a proceeding and its leaders who... Read more
Self-Incrimination Self-Incrimination
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