#trial.judicial_proceeding (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"
supertype: judicial_proceeding__proceeding__legal_proceeding__legalproceeding__proceedings__proceeding (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
subtype: show_trial a trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has been decided in advance
subtype: court-martial__courtmartial a trial by court martial
subtype: Scopes_trial a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
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