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criminal court

noun

  1. a court of law in which criminal cases are tried and determined.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of criminal court1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

It also contains several provisions that would make it easier to hold officers accountable for misconduct in civil and criminal court.

In 2018, the police accused him of links with militants, but he was granted bail by a criminal court.

From Ozy

Journalists’ right to access criminal court proceedings, except in narrow situations such as those involving juveniles, is generally recognized across the country and has been upheld by the Supreme Court, experts said.

Fellow Egyptian journalist Mohamad Ibrahim is also enduring this “revolving door policy,” where new charges are brought to keep individuals in pre-trial detention, despite release orders from criminal court.

From Fortune

When criminal courts more fully open, felony cases and in-custody misdemeanors will be prioritized, pushing some misdemeanor cases – like unlawful assembly – toward the bottom of the list.

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

Because Wright was a no-show in criminal court to face the loud music and pot bust he already had an outstanding warrant.

For very good reasons, a conviction is unlikely either in state or federal criminal court.

The exposure my client would have had in criminal court doesn't compare to a second semester senior getting expelled.

An afternoon spent observing trials in a New York criminal court makes him physically ill.

We want them because they are needed in the criminal court of Chicago.

Hence the criminal court appears to be the highest of the courts, and the one that most deeply affects the natural rights of man.

Towards the latter end of February a criminal court was convened, in which six of the convicts received sentence of death.

She wondered what he was feeling, whether he disliked the portrait of the judge of the Criminal Court at which he was looking.

All things considered, kidnaping and automobile theft were not a happy combination with which to appear before a criminal court.

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