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criminal court

noun

  1. a court of law in which criminal cases are tried and determined.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of criminal court1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

Because Wright was a no-show in criminal court to face the loud music and pot bust he already had an outstanding warrant.

For very good reasons, a conviction is unlikely either in state or federal criminal court.

The exposure my client would have had in criminal court doesn't compare to a second semester senior getting expelled.

An afternoon spent observing trials in a New York criminal court makes him physically ill.

We want them because they are needed in the criminal court of Chicago.

Hence the criminal court appears to be the highest of the courts, and the one that most deeply affects the natural rights of man.

Towards the latter end of February a criminal court was convened, in which six of the convicts received sentence of death.

She wondered what he was feeling, whether he disliked the portrait of the judge of the Criminal Court at which he was looking.

All things considered, kidnaping and automobile theft were not a happy combination with which to appear before a criminal court.

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