How to Use criminal court in a Sentence

criminal court

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  • Two days later, criminal court records show, Tsaroukian was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The pool of money comes from fines and penalties collected in federal criminal court cases.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In 2007, Baker pleaded guilty in criminal court to abusing two boys.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
  • As a criminal court judge, John Kastrenakes has put murderers in prison for life, sent fraudsters away for decades and issued thousands of orders.
    — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The charges in these proceedings are then heard in the Crown Court, a higher criminal court, with a potential sentence of life imprisonment.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • According to criminal court documents, Bickelhaupt grabbed Welsh by her hair, threw her to the ground, then struck her in the head with a bottle causing injury.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • While no charges related to the wreck will proceed in criminal court, Stephens and other family members injured in the crash are still suing Manuel for damages.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019
  • At the end of his piece, Zeigler says Lauer wants to tell his version of events in public now that he's been publicly accused of a crime that is unlikely to ever be resolved in a criminal court.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Others include the practice of trying children as young as 10 years old as adults in criminal courts and locking up minors convicted of crimes in adult prisons – at times in solitary confinement.
    — Jessica Taft, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2019
  • She will be tried by a criminal court in Brest on Oct. 14.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • Russell is free on bail as the case works its way through criminal court.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The state wants the case to be decided by a criminal court, not a civil one.
    — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Others are sent to a unit in Cranston by order of a criminal court.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
  • If the physician is found guilty in a criminal court, they could be ordered to pay fines or sent to jail or prison.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In Rock County, south of Madison, a 15-year-old was charged in criminal court.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Legal sources said the suspects would now be referred to a criminal court to be tried.
    — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • And if the case goes to criminal court, there won't be a non-disclosure agreement.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • No jury trials were in process as of Friday, and the criminal courts planned to take this week off for spring break.
    — Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • He was released after a night in jail but will have to appear at the city’s criminal court next month.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 1 July 2022
  • The sentence, handed down on Tuesday by a criminal court in Bangkok, was more than 43 years in prison.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The next year, the state’s top criminal court found their original pay rate broke local rules and state law.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The process is handled in civil court, not criminal court.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • The criminal court is no longer involved in their treatment.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Aside from being fired, Dages was charged in criminal court with lying in the report.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The company also sued Lynch in U.S. criminal court, where he was found not guilty in June.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2024
  • No New Orleans judge in criminal court had lost a re-election bid since the early 1970s.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • Watson was not charged in criminal court and settled with all but one of his accusers.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But so far the Weinstein case is the only #MeToo case to be brought before a jury in a criminal court.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
  • His trial will be the first of a churchman with his rank in Vatican City’s criminal court.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 3 July 2021
  • Fox said a no-contest plea is treated the same as a guilty plea for sentencing in criminal court.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2023

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