Impeachment trial

[4][5][6] In Italy, after a president is impeached through a majority vote of the Parliament in joint session for high treason and/or for attempting to overthrow the Constitution, the president is tried by a panel including the justices of the Constitutional Court of Italy as well as sixteen citizens older than forty chosen by lot from a list that is compiled by the Parliament every nine years.

These hearings have come following formal impeachment votes by the Congress of the Republic of Peru to launch proceedings.

[15] In South Korea, a successful impeachment vote of the President by two thirds of the National Assembly (while only a simple majority is required, for other officials) is followed by suspension of duties, while an impeachment trial in the Constitutional Court of Korea takes place.

[16] Six of the nine Constitutional Court judges must find the impeachment case valid, for the defending official to be removed from office.

[17] In the United Kingdom, any individual can, in principle, be prosecuted and face trial in an impeachment by the two Houses of Parliament for any crime.

[18] However, this process has long since been, in practice, rendered obsolete, and has supplemented by other forms of oversight including select committees, confidence motions, and judicial review.

Most states follow the same model as the United States federal government of having the lower chamber of their legislatures hold a vote to "impeach", thereby triggering an impeachment trial held in the upper chamber of their legislatures.

[21] In Missouri, after the lower chamber votes to impeach, an impeachment trial is held before the Supreme Court of Missouri, except for members of that court or for governors, whose impeachments are to be tried by a panel of seven judges (requiring a vote of five judges to convict), with the members of the panel being selected by the upper legislative chamber, the Missouri State Senate.