kangaroo court

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Definition of kangaroo courtnext
as in high court

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Recent Examples of kangaroo court Following a trial described by international observers as a kangaroo court, they were sentenced to death on October 31, 1995. — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026 Kinda like all that Canton surveillance video in 2022 that would have spared Karen Read the burden of having to go through those two trials in the kangaroo court. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025 Chandler complained about her treatment at trial, calling it a kangaroo court. — Ruth Chenetz, CBS News, 31 May 2025 Each of them struggles with their foreign agent status, hiring lawyers to represent them in kangaroo courts where the verdict has been pre-determined. — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kangaroo court
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  1. high court
  2. supreme court
  3. criminal court
  4. inquisition
  5. court-martial
  6. drumhead court-martial
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  • The high court’s current term already features 33 cases, with the justices expected to take up roughly two to three dozen more cases for oral argument before the term concludes at the end of June.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Newsom can commute about 40% of the death sentences with the stroke of a pen, but the rest will require the high court’s approval in order to be finalized.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of high court
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  • Bolsonaro, who is under investigation as part of a money-laundering probe, initially rejected Sunday’s result amid a row over voting hours being extended at the last minute by a supreme court judge who was previously Lula’s lawyer.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 31 Oct. 2026
  • But the editorial boards of both the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel have continued to watch this supreme court for the past six years.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of supreme court
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  • How has Brand’s flimflam, wrapped up in the needy personality of an entertainer who lives off clicks, landed in England’s criminal court system?
    — Luke Jones, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The verdict and sentence was delivered by eight judges at Italy’s highest criminal court, the prima Corte d’Assise, in Rome.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of criminal court
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  • The point is that an inquisition’s social cost is so high that its victims’ guilt or innocence is only part of the accounting.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Defeat on penalties to Bosnia and Herzegovina in their play-off bracket’s final in March led to an inquisition.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of inquisition
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  • Ordered to give up the codes under the threat of court-martial, Kirk refuses.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Petty Officer Jermiah Copeland received the sentence at a general court-martial after pleading guilty to unpremeditated murder and related charges in the death of Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Angelina Resendiz, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) said Tuesday in a news release.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
Definition of court-martial
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  • And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial.
    — Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
Definition of drumhead court-martial

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