What an excellent question. A court trial is a step in our guaranteed right to due process in a criminal case. Each state has a step by step procedure in place to comply with this Constitutional guarantee. It is a trial held to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused with evidence and testimony that has been accepted by the court to present in the case.
A media trial is not an actual trial, it is a term used to describe the tendency of the media to decide the guilt or innocence of an accused based on whatever they decide is evidence, whether it would be acceptable in a court of law or not. A media trial also includes a great deal of opinion on the part of the media participants.
No, it's not. A trial in a court is preferable because there are rules for procedure and evidence, conviction or acquittal. In a trial in the media, there are no rules (especially if you use "sources say").
The O.J. Simpson trial.
Most state trial court decisions are NOT published. Unless the trial is newsworthy and the media chooses to publish the results of the trial, there is no routine public publishing of these decisions. However, the results of any trial are a public record and may be researched by going to the Office of the Clerk of the Court for your research.
A closed court is held either because the information disclosed is too sensitive to allow the media to broadcast it, or because the visitors have started interfering too much in the trial.
If you mean the one in Vista California, it's a branch of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. It is a trial court (as opposed to an appellate court) with jurisdiction over all criminal and civil cases.
In a jury trial, the case is heard and decided by a group of impartial individuals (the jury). In a bench trial, the case is heard and decided by a judge without a jury. The judge determines the outcome based on the evidence and arguments presented in court.
you can get a Philippine municipal trial court clearance at your Municipal Trial Court :D
A trial court is the court of original jurisdiction.
Actually a court of appeals cannot decide that. A court of appeals can only decide whether or not the trial court correctly followed procedures and existing legal precedence. It is entirely possible for procedures and legal precedence to be completely unfair (they have been many times) but if the trial court properly followed them, the court of appeals must support the trial court's decision. If the court of appeals decides that the trial court failed to follow procedures and/or existing legal precedent, then the case must be retried in a trial court.
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apelleate court sends a case back to the trial court