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Recent Examples of criminal court
Prior to Thursday’s hearing — which was moved from general sessions court to criminal court, The Tennessean reported, forecasting an end to the case — the charges against Wallen were reduced from low-level felonies to two two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment without a weapon.
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Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
If indicted, Yoon would be the first sitting South Korean president to be tried in criminal court while still in office.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Last year, the 35-year-old was found guilty in criminal court of assault and harassment relating to an incident with Jabbari.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
He was arraigned Wednesday in criminal court in Central Islip and ordered to stay away from the victim by Judge Bernard Cheng.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
If indicted, Yoon would be the first sitting South Korean president to be tried in criminal court while still in office.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Last year, the 35-year-old was found guilty in criminal court of assault and harassment relating to an incident with Jabbari.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
He was arraigned Wednesday in criminal court in Central Islip and ordered to stay away from the victim by Judge Bernard Cheng.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for criminal court
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Conrad’s office is supervised by the Judicial Conference, the federal judiciary’s policymaking arm.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
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Come next year, Republicans will look to boost Trump's already considerable influence on the makeup of the federal judiciary in his second term.KEVIN FREKING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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TikTok is represented before the high court by Noel Francisco, who served as solicitor general during Trump's first term.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
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The nonprofit regularly brings religion cases before the high court and has won eight cases since 2012.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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Still, the state supreme court this month ruled his attorneys had failed to prove that anything has changed since the inmate was deemed competent.Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a Hawaii man's appeal of his prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license, leaving untouched a state supreme court decision that castigated its new framework for determining whether gun laws comport with the Second Amendment.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2024
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Art exhibit about misogyny was only open to women — until a man complained In September the supreme court quashed the tribunal’s ruling, and MONA this week announced that the Ladies Lounge will reopen for a lap of honor from Thursday until mid-January, 2025.Elizabeth Fortescue, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Civilian courts were replaced with military tribunals, and the military controlled many aspects of daily life until the territory returned to civilian governance in 1944.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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The ball courts in this study were used for several ball games, including pok-a-tok.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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And even after doing it 18 previous times over 21 seasons, a spot on the court Christmas evening with everyone watching hit him like a triple espresso.Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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The man watched from a bench on the platform at the station.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Both sides were harboring championship expectations, and have since had to reconcile with poor injury luck and a concerningly-thin bench.Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Criminal court.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20court. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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