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A criminal is guaranteed a trial by?
The Constitution
What are some disadvantages of trial by ordeal?
what is the disadcantages of trial by ordeal
Who was the judge at Matthew weeks trial?
The judge hoo does trials.
What is ordeal?
an extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
What is a trial by ordeal?
As a last resort, and extremely rarely, a medieval trial might be decided by Combat or by Ordeal. In the case of combat, the parties could each appoint a Champion to fight for them. The idea was that, in the combat, God would favour the right. Similarly with the ordeal. A common ordeal was to pick an object, with a bare hand, out of boiling water. Again, the theological basis of the ordeal was that God would give courage to the party in the right - maybe even a miracle. Psychologically, of course, it could work too - as the party in the wrong would be less likely to brave the pain. The reason, however, why such trials are rare is that they were only needed in cases which a Judge could not decide; and in cases so marginal, the difference between right and wrong, even in the minds of the parties, is by definition unclear.
