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"Verdict" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The verdict at issue in these discussions is the one brought in the Lander's trial in 1994.
The jury has returned a verdict of guilty.
The jury's guilty verdict gave rise to widespread debate.
The verdict is a tribute to their fairness.
Her hopes were dashed when she heard the verdict.
The jury has agreed upon a verdict.
The jury has reached a verdict.
The judge asked the jury to reach a verdict.
The verdict was a death sentence.
The state appealed the verdict.
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The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.
The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] “We took this case to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial – as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment – requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense,” Gorsuch wrote.
a “not out” verdict from the umpire
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