Trial

A trial is a judicial examination of issues between parties to an action. In the U.S., trials are often decided by a jury, while a judge presides over procedural and evidentiary issues, while in the rest of the world trials are nearly always entirely by a judge. England used to have many jury trials, but less so today.

An unfair Roman trial sentenced Jesus to death to appease the crowd, which had been whipped into a frenzy against Jesus by liberal Pharisees.