1. Unlike Kanemaru, Hiroyasu Watanabe was not spared the ignominy of a public trial over his role in the scandal. 2. The British community would not be very happy about the involvement of one of its ladies in a public trial. 3. Although the Ethiopians have received financial and legal help from the West, these public trials will be conducted in Ethiopia by Ethiopians. 4. And it would avoid penalizing a man who has argued that high-ranking commissioned officers charged with similar offenses are allowed to retire quietly, without public trial or censure. 5. A Texas agreement would keep the settlement on track and remove the risk of a public trial with damaging allegations. 6. A public trial was conducted. 7. A wide-open public trial is far better, as the founders knew, than any secret or closed proceeding. 8. But even so the community impact is more diffuse than it was when the framers of the Constitution chose to guarantee public trials as a fundamental right. 9. But Kelli Sager, an attorney who represents several news organizations, argued that the U.S. Constitution required public access to evidence in a public trial. 10. But other experts said that deception has no part in the courtroom, particularly in a judicial system that insures public trials. |