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um, not to my understanding. There may be another term for trials that are slanted toward a pre-determined not-guilty verdict, but it's always been my understanding that 'show trials' were ones in which a guilty verdict was pre-determined and the court proceedings are played out in a way which makes possible no other conclusion. Kind of like Alice in the Queen of Hearts court, lol.
Not that it matters really. Quibbling.
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