Sentences with phrase «threat of the criminal trial»

Not only is a criminal record likely to put a dampener on people's willingness to speak out against government officials, the threat of the criminal trial process itself is enough to dissuade most people.

Not exact matches

While it could indeed be «a potentially epoch - making moment it could be for Gaddafi to stand trial at the International Criminal Court,» Bali and Abu Rish argue that: «The prospect of retirement in a prison cell in the Hague may factor into al - Qaddafi's incentives to make good on his threats to fight to the last of his capacities, visiting untold atrocities on Libyan civilians in the process.

Despite the sensibilities of a criminal trial, sensationalised news stories circulated by the media have steadily gnawed at the guarantees of a right to a fair trial and posed a grave threat to the presumption of innocence.