courtroom
IPA: kˈɔrtrum
noun
- The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.
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Examples of "courtroom" in Sentences
- The movie ends in the courtroom again.
- The cases are not won in the courtroom.
- The courtroom is located on the second floor.
- The defendant was ejected from the courtroom.
- She presented a flamboyant figure in the courtroom.
- The producers maintain the pretense of a civil courtroom.
- Judge Jackson pounds his gavel and leaves the massive courtroom.
- The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom.
- In the courtroom Henderson argued that the evidence was circumstantial.
- Dorothy puts on a show in the middle of the courtroom, annoying the judge.
- The understanding of Islam in the courtroom is also clouded by the crisis of authority in the religion itself.
- A courtroom is (generally speaking) a public place, and we live in a time of instantaneous worldwide communications.
- The discovery process in a civilian courtroom is completely inadequate at preserving the secrecy and safety of our sources.
- One strange byproduct of Lindsay Lohan's ongoing legal issues is that the phrase 'courtroom couture' has entered our vocabulary....
- “The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”
- But the end result, and the shared understanding of everyone in the courtroom, is that the other person living in the house (be it parent, spouse, children) have to get rid of their guns.
- If ever clothes were put into the service of swaying public opinion, the courtroom is the one place where most folks strive for a look that is reserved, conventional and wholly unremarkable.
- "The courtroom is where you go to get a fair and even-handed reading of the law, regardless of who you are or where you came from or who you voted for," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said.
- DNA, which was born in research laboratories, where all variables are controlled, not in a courtroom, is a reliable science because it is not controlled by subjective bias of an individual examiner unlike many of the other forensic sciences criticized in the NAS report.
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