Acts 25:16
to whom I made answer, It is not a custom with Romans to grant as a favor any man, before the accused has the accuser face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge laid against him.
Acts 25:4-5
Festus, therefore, answered, that Paul was held at Caesarea, and that he himself was about shortly to go out thither.
John 7:51
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hear from him, and know what he does?"
Acts 23:30
And, a plot that was about to be against the man having been discovered to me, I immediately sent him to you, charging the accusers to speak against him before you."
Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak in your own behalf." Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, was making his defense: