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in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused has thus waived the Constitutional right to face one's accusers. During the War Crimes trials following World War II, it was employed against Nazis who had committed atrocities and then disappeared, the most famous being Martin Bormann, Hitler's closest aide. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Celil fled China in the 1990s, having been sentenced to death in absentia for separatist political activities. Roman Polanski waited decades after fleeing a warrant for pedophilia before he finally snagged, in absentia, his Best Director statue for ``The Pianist. Belgium's Supreme Court held that the country's 1993 Anti-Atrocity legislation allowed for prosecution in absentia, thereby finding the plaintiffs' bases for appeal of a lower court decision to be well-founded, and allowed the case to proceed. |
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