What struck him most was interrogators' surreal insistence on some trappings of judicial procedure.

最令他震惊的是审讯人员对司法程序的一些表面文章的坚持已经到了超现实的地步。

We don't even need to go through a judicial procedure.

我们甚至不需要通过司法程序。

The safeguards of trial by jury, regular judicial procedure, and habeas corpus were established, in order that the methods of civilized life might take the place of the rough-and-ready justice of lynch law.

陪审团审判、正规司法程序和人身保护令的保障得以确立，以文明生活的方式取代私刑法粗暴的正义。