The Homicide Trial · Atlas

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Homicide trial1 mention

Take the laws which deal with courts of homicide, and which order the contending parties to summon one another, or to tender evidence, or to take their oaths, or which give them any other direction;

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The First TetralogyClassical · Greek

The ongoing capital homicide prosecution—comprising the tetralogy's four speeches—in which the defendant's guilt or innocence for the double killing is argued and decided, repeatedly compared by both sides to the lesser, non-capital indictment that preceded it.

But he did not, on the other hand, expect to be involved in the present trial, as he thought that he could commit the murder without being found out.

the first tetralogy ¶

I will now show that, unless I was mad, I must have thought the danger in which I now stand far greater, instead of less, than the danger to be expected from the indictment.

the first tetralogy ¶

so both justice and expediency absolutely forbid you to acquit him.

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The Second TetralogyClassical · Greek

The judicial proceeding itself: the trial before the jury in which both fathers deliver paired prosecution and defense speeches disputing legal and moral responsibility for the boy's death.

for I myself, who, unless I am sorely mistaken, am very far from finding or wanting to find such a task congenial, have today been forced by sheer misfortune to depart from my habits and appear as defendant in a case in which I found it hard enough to arrive at the exact truth, but which leaves me still more perplexed when I consider how I should present it to you.

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Cases in which the facts are agreed upon are settled in advance either by the law or by the statutes of the Assembly, which between them control every branch of civic life.

the second tetralogy ¶

and he, but for his audacity, would not have had the twofold advantage over me of using one speech to answer the one speech for the prosecution and making his accusations when they could not be answered.

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Against AristocratesClassical · Greek

The lawful process required before punishment for homicide.

Take the laws which deal with courts of homicide, and which order the contending parties to summon one another, or to tender evidence, or to take their oaths, or which give them any other direction;

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You have eliminated the intermediate process, for between accusation and conviction comes a trial.

against aristocrates ¶

Moreover he argued that before the trial is held such expressions as if a man kill, if a man rob a temple, if a man commit treason, and the like, are merely phrases of accusation:

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