Verdict

Definitions

1. A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
2. An opinion or judgement.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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