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A posthumous trial or post-mortem trial is a trial held after the defendant's death. Posthumous trials can be held for a variety of reasons, including the legal declaration that the defendant was the one who committed the crime, to provide justice for society or family members of the victims, or to exonerate a wrongfully convicted person after their death. Due to the heavy cost, they are usually held only under extraordinary circumstances.
A posthumoustrial or post-mortem trial is a trial held after the defendant's death. Posthumoustrials can be held for a variety of reasons, including...
company of the Vigilantes and summarily hanged. Plummer was given a posthumoustrial in 1993 which led to a mistrial. The jury was split 6–6. Plummer was...
Philip IV pressured Pope Clement V of the Avignon Papacy into staging a posthumoustrial of Boniface. He was accused of heresy and sodomy, but no verdict against...
the corpse of a pope was exhumed—to be put on trial: Known as the 'Cadaver Synod,' the posthumoustrial of Pope Formosus resulted from the chaos of the...
sentencing by extrajudicial commission Political trial, a criminal trial with political implications. Posthumoustrial Victor's justice, prosecution of the defeated...
allegations of fraud, theft and human rights violations in Russia. His posthumoustrial was the first in the Russian Federation. Magnitsky alleged there had...
The following is a list of works that were published posthumously. An asterisk indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example, Philip...
A posthumous birth is the birth of a child after the death of a parent. A person born in these circumstances is called a posthumous child or a posthumously...
conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003. Bruce paved the way for counterculture-era comedians. His trial for obscenity was...
lawyers to be the greatest lawyer of the 20th century. He was posthumously inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Called a "sophisticated country lawyer"...
and as a god connected with maat, Osiris became the judge in this posthumoustrial, offering life after death to those who followed his example. New Kingdom...
Aaliyah's music has continued to achieve commercial success, aided by several posthumous releases. She has sold 8.1 million albums in the US and an estimated 24...
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment. It is typically performed to show that even in death...
The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known...
insults. The Cadaver Synod, was an event where Pope Stephen VI held a posthumoustrial for Pope Formosus in 897 AD. Stephen became the Pope after Pope Formosus...
The latter was directly challenged by Philippe IV when he demanded a posthumoustrial of his former adversary, the late Boniface VIII, for alleged heresy...
February 2 – At Avignon, Pope Clement V begins the investigation and posthumoustrial of the late Pope Boniface VIII, who was accused of heresy and sodomy...
York Review of Books Aronson, Ronald (2003), "Review: Communism's PosthumousTrial. Reviewed Work(s): The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression...
Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812236453. Aronson, Ronald (2003). "Communism's posthumoustrial". History and Theory. 42 (2): 222–245. doi:10.1111/1468-2303.00240...
The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving...
to 1964 and completely restored from 1995 to 1999. In 2008, Germany posthumously pardoned Van der Lubbe under a law introduced in 1998 to lift unjust...
session, the Knights Templar organization was outlawed, the matter of a posthumoustrial against the late Pope Boniface VIII was tabled and forgotten about...
died in prison the following year. He was eventually exonerated by a posthumoustrial. Each year in May, the citizens of Nocera gather in costume to watch...
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