I'm sure that helped enable them to move on. Jim Townsend, Snohomish County chief criminal deputy prosecutor, agrees the system can help people work through pain. I think the families of victims often want to know why, and sometimes the only way to answer that is with a trial. It helps get people's families through the trial. The word also means a hardship, suffering, something that tries one's endurance.
Prosecutors are closest to the first definition.
Victims' advocates know the second. Victims may end up having a reaction that, because there wasn't a trial justice was not served, and therefore their loved one wasn't honored. By going to trial, a victim can be more of a spectator than an active participant in the criminal justice system. They don't have any control over what charges are brought. When cases go through the system it often takes so long.