"I have a feeling this is going to be a very quick trial, if we're not careful."

A combination of quick trials and plaintiff-friendly juries, many lawyers say.

A quick trial and you'll be swingin' at the end of a rope.

Such quick trials have been condemned by Palestinian and international human rights groups as miscarriages of justice.

Later, after a quick trial, the prisoners were lined up with a British soldier standing a couple of yards in front of them.

Many things were still not clear, he added, about "the murderer and the man convicted and the quick trial."

And we'd all be facing a quick trial and a lingering execution.

The other two were hanged after a quick trial.

Two other blacks were hanged after a quick trial.

That and the alternative, a quick trial followed by execution.