How to Use stand trial in a Sentence

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  • At the end of that hearing, she was ordered to stand trial.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
  • He is scheduled to stand trial on those charges in Fort Pierce, Fla., in May.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Bradley is scheduled to stand trial next month in Blake’s death.
    Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But all charges were dropped in April 2022, just days before he was set to stand trial.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Troconis is the first person to stand trial in the case.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Rolon and Connor are expected to stand trial at the end of April.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Young Thug was one of six defendants set to stand trial.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • McGrath, who pleaded not guilty, was to stand trial on March 13.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Trump was indicted on state charges this year in New York and is scheduled to stand trial there in March.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • He has since been charged with a number of crimes in relation to that day and is scheduled to stand trial in March.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Joshua Titus had been scheduled to stand trial next week.
    Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Her husband, James Crumbley, will stand trial on the same charges in March.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., has yet to stand trial.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • Shaw, 34, is set to be sentenced for that verdict and stand trial on charges in Holley’s killing later this month.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Mariemont High School student charged in a plot to attack his school was ruled competent to stand trial Tuesday.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 14 May 2024
  • Hunter pleaded not guilty to all of the tax counts and is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles in September.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • She is expected to stand trial in August and faces up to six years in prison if convicted on those charges.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to his 13-count indictment and is due to stand trial in October.
    Ava Benny-Morrison, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • Hundreds of inmates in the Bexar County jail have been deemed incompetent to stand trial, but that could change soon.
    Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The suspect in that case was later deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hunter pleaded not guilty to all counts and is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles in September.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • Ng, who oversaw investment banking in Malaysia for his firm, was the only Goldman Sachs banker to stand trial.
    Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In such an outcome, he would also likely be forced to stand trial on corruption charges.
    Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
  • Of the 28 who were first indicted, now just five in addition to Young Thug, will stand trial, due to the plea deals and 13 names now being tried separately.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But a French court overruled the decision in 2021, ordering the two companies to stand trial.
    Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Those men whose court records The Times was able to review either pleaded guilty to a lesser charge or were deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
    Jennifer Valentino-Devries, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • He was indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, but has yet to stand trial.
    Adam Shaw, Fox News, 27 May 2023
  • At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, that judge will decide whether Abril will stand trial as charged.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Juveniles who are at least 14 at the time of the offense may be certified to stand trial as an adult, depending on the circumstances.
    Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Reasons for all but destroying the possibility of putting Trump back in a courtroom to stand trial before Election Day range from procedural planning to confidence Nov. 5 won’t be an end point for chances to move forward with the charges.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024

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