The fate of a criminal is decided when the trial ends.
<u>A trial is held to decide if the person accussed of committing a crime will be punished or not</u>. In the system of common law, the defendant has the right to be tried before a jury, which is conformed by 12 people. In these cases,<u> the jury is the one in charge of giving a veredict, that is to say the jury is in charge of deciding the fate of a criminal</u> after examining the evidence provided by the lawyers.
Materialism means constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns