criminal court

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Recent Examples of criminal court On December 19, 2024, after three months and 17 days, the criminal court found all 51 defendants guilty. Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025 In September, a French judge ordered Depardieu stand trial in a criminal court on charges of rape related to accusations by actress Charlotte Arnould. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025 Cases are flooding the courts, with hearings in DC’s local criminal court routinely lasting late into the night and federal prosecutors awakened for new cases. Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025 If so, he’s presumed innocent until proved otherwise, in a criminal court of law. Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for criminal court
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Noun
  • Twice, the administration appealed, contending that the judiciary had usurped Congress's spending power by directing the executive branch to find the money.
    James Sample, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Pezeshkian doesn’t control the judiciary, the security forces, or the Center for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which is tasked with pushing women to wear hijab (its leaders are appointed by the Friday prayer leaders’ council, whose members are in turn appointed by Khamenei).
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lower courts have ruled against him, but some trade experts still see a chance that the high court will decide in his favor.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The move opened the courthouse door to Trump’s two other high court nominees during his first term.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The current congressional map has not been reviewed by the state’s supreme court, of which the majority of justices were appointed by Republicans, and Democrats would like to keep it that way.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In those states, litigants appeal directly to the state supreme court.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2016, an international arbitral tribunal rejected China's sweeping South China Sea claims in the waters but Chinese government has ignored the ruling since.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Most conflicts are decided by the tribunal of public opinion.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In South Korea, these were the press, judicature, and religious organizations.
    Lutz Finger, Forbes, 6 May 2021
Noun
  • There, a mechanic began repairs on the car, but was ordered to stop because of the ongoing court arguments over the car.
    Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • If the court accepts the case, oral arguments could be scheduled for the spring, with a possible decision by June.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • One of those logs, sliced in half, was turned into a bench, now in the house’s central foyer.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Heat’s bench continues to be a bright spot for the Heat early this season.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Criminal court.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20court. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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