COURT TV is putting Osama bin Laden on trial.

The world’s most-wanted criminal hasn’t been caught (“dead or alive”), but Court TV and ABC News will stage a mock “trial” of bin Laden on a special segment of Court TV’s “The System,” airing Thursday, Dec. 6 (10 p.m.).

The one-hour special, “Osama bin Laden On Trial,” will theorize what would happen if bin Laden was caught and brought back to a U.S. courtroom.

It’s hosted by Court TV anchor Catherine Crier, with noted attorney Alan Dershowitz and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. acting as defense attorney and prosecutor.

“Just considering [a bin Laden] trial in this way shows our enemies that we are capable of dealing with the situation,” says Art Bell, Court TV’s executive vice president of programming and marketing.

“We all remember Sept. 11 as probably the biggest crime of the century on U.S. soil,” Bell says. “And the hallway conversation between our anchors and documentary producers was, ‘What happens if they find this guy and bring him back to the U.S.? What happens next?’

“So we put together the idea of sketching out what a trial of bin Laden might look like,” he says. “We thought that if this conversation was interesting to us, it would likely be interesting to our audience.”

But Court TV’s mock trial of bin Laden won’t be like the 1977 movie “The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald” or a 1986 Showtime special, “On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald,” which featured actors playing Oswald et al.

“We’re not going to do that,” says Ed Hersh, Court TV’s senior vice president of documentaries and specials. “Not all the evidence is available to us.

“This is much more a documentary than ‘Judge Judy meets Osama bid Laden,’ and purposely so.

“We’re going to explain the charges, and talk about what the attorneys would put in their opening statements and closing arguments.”