criminal court

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Recent Examples of criminal court Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was sentenced to five and a half years in jail in December 2023. Joshua McElwee, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025 Ramos posted the $50,000 bail a Queens criminal court judge levied against him during his arraignment on May 4, according to court records. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025 Becciu, 76, was convicted in 2023 by the Vatican's criminal court on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office following a high-profile trial that raised questions about the Vatican's judicial process. Dan Cody, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 The brothers deny all the allegations against them brought in a mixture of civil and criminal courts. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for criminal court
Recent Examples of Synonyms for criminal court
Noun
  • Dissent isn’t tolerated, nor is there an independent judiciary.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • Four years and 226 judges, including three U.S. Supreme Court justices, later, Mr. Trump made the federal judiciary much younger and much more conservative.
    Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • While the high court’s decision was on procedural grounds, the practical consequences have been to pause access for potentially months despite the Missouri Constitution now containing a right to reproductive freedom.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2025
  • Amid the ongoing emergency appeals landing before the high court, the justices will be handing down opinions in more than two dozen cases that have yet to be resolved.
    Melissa Quinn June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Related: Supreme Court to decide if challenge to Illinois' grace period for mail-in ballots can proceed Pennsylvania Democrats countered that the 2024 ruling by the state supreme court was consistent with the text of state election law and with the intent of the legislators who set the rules.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • In a statement, Cuba’s supreme court said the two violated the terms of their release and local courts revoked their parole.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 2016, an international arbitration tribunal ruled Beijing's expansive claim had no basis in international law, however.
    Liz Lee, USA Today, 3 June 2025
  • The war crimes tribunal that Sheikh Hasina herself founded has now charged her in the crackdown that killed more than a thousand demonstrators.
    Saif Hasnat, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Morrison is 32 now — older, wiser, a lot more worldly than the kid who got into trouble, ended up in court and left Old Trafford without fulfilling that rare potential.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 6 June 2025
  • She was fired without warning in July, according to court documents.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The cart seats four, thanks to the inclusion of a rear bench, and the hard-shell roof extends over the back to keep all passengers dry and shaded.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2025
  • The case was moved to San Diego County because of Spitzer’s status as Orange County’s top prosecutor and Nelson’s position on the Orange County bench.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2025

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“Criminal court.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20court. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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