At any rate, we aren't allowed to try people for crimes they have yet to commit.

Various soldiers had, it said, been tried and imprisoned for such crimes.

Papon was tried and convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998.

As part of that same law, 14- and 15-year-olds can now be tried for violent crimes in adult court.

"The general will be tried for crimes against the motherland."

He is likely to be tried for treason and other crimes that carry the death penalty.

We frequently try such adolescents for crimes as adults at that age.

He was never tried for political crimes; prosecutors concluded that it would be too difficult to make charges stick.

Many in this group could be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity.

They could be tried for crimes only in a church court under Canon law.