criminal court
noun
: a court that has jurisdiction to try and punish offenders against criminal law
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Unlike in criminal courts, noncitizens do not have access to free counsel, but have a right to a lawyer to represent them.
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Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025
Every police officer in Illinois is now required to wear a body camera, an overhaul of Cook County criminal court is coming, plus Chicago residents can expect tax hikes on streaming services and cable TV, personal property leases and grocery bags.
—Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
But a fuller explanation, drawn from corporate filings, interviews, and criminal court and bankruptcy records, shows how the DOJ, after years of aggressively prosecuting opioid companies, delayed for a decade a winning criminal case against Endo.
—Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
In 2015, Arezzo’s criminal court sentenced Landi’s uncle, cousin and brother to between two and four and a half years in prison for fraudulent bankruptcy and misappropriation of funds.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025
Every police officer in Illinois is now required to wear a body camera, an overhaul of Cook County criminal court is coming, plus Chicago residents can expect tax hikes on streaming services and cable TV, personal property leases and grocery bags.
—Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
But a fuller explanation, drawn from corporate filings, interviews, and criminal court and bankruptcy records, shows how the DOJ, after years of aggressively prosecuting opioid companies, delayed for a decade a winning criminal case against Endo.
—Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
In 2015, Arezzo’s criminal court sentenced Landi’s uncle, cousin and brother to between two and four and a half years in prison for fraudulent bankruptcy and misappropriation of funds.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Criminal court.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminal%20court. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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