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verdict Noun

— A verdict is a decision on an issue in a civil or criminal case. The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.

verdict

— noun (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment

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Social behavior Law

Judge, render a verdict

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  to judge render a verdict rule on a case
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Social behavior Law Judge, render a verdict

Condemn, find guilty

• What words are used of the action of condemning a person?
  recover damages render a guilty verdict hand down a conviction
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Simple sentences

The judge asked the jury to reach a verdict.

I agreed with the verdict.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

The verdict is in.

The defense was pleased by the verdict.

The defense appealed the verdict.

This trial is guilty of wasting my time; the verdict is therefore guilty.

The jury hasn't reached a verdict yet.

It's my verdict!

What's your verdict?

Movie subtitles

At last, the verdict was Sofren.

Verdict, guilty, first-degree.

You have presented no new evidence, no cause to change the verdict of the court.

Have you reached a verdict?

I wish to state that your verdict is one that destroys the confidence of law-abiding people in the integrity and justice of the American court.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury have you agreed upon a verdict?

You will hand the verdict to the bailiff.

Gentlemen, it's up to you to bring in a verdict.

A just verdict. Conviction.

There is only one verdict. You know it as well as I do.

Jury, have you reached a verdict?

Zola must be punished, and all France awaits your verdict.

They did not dare say all about the whole undividable affair and submit it to your verdict.

Its verdict is always final.

The verdict.

A VERDICT IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING.

The killer is here. A weak verdict on your part would mean a breach in the ramparts built to protect our society.

Yes, but the verdict isn't in, so the debate is still open.

Therefore, I instruct you, gentlemen of the jury. that inasmuch as Peter Blood has admitted. aiding a traitor to your king. you do bring in a verdict of guilty. that he may be hanged. for the high treason he has committed.

They should reach a verdict soon.

Can't they ever reach a verdict?

My lad, they've reached a verdict.

Think that jury will bring in a verdict before our deadline?

That verdict is our deadline.

Then the coroner's verdict would be simply death by drowning.

Verdict for the plaintiff on a fifty-fifty basis, and I get half.

How much was the verdict?

Yeah, but how much was the verdict?

Well, the verdict was for 6 cents.

Yeah, but the very fact that the verdict was in my favor definitely makes it. Six cents.

Foreman, will you please read the verdict?

So when you boys retire to consider a verdict. stay out for a while.

Before retiring in an attempt to reach your verdict.. I wish to remind you that your duty is to consider only matters of facts.

The jury will now retire to reach a verdict.

I stood before a jury whose verdict was decided upon before they heard the case.

To confirm the verdict of suicide.

I'll wait for the verdict.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Have you reached a verdict?

News and current affairs

The confused reaction to this verdict should, perhaps, give pause to all those who think that putting the past on trial is a straightforward thing.

They remained in jail in Riyadh without legal representation until the final verdict.

This ended days ago with the old verdict reaffirmed: seven years in prison.

The EU should consider blocking all its educational and cultural programs in Egypt if the verdict on Ibrahim and his associates is not overturned and the Ibn Khaldun Institute not re-opened and restored to full vigor.

No secret file is being used to secure a guilty verdict.

Ivanov, however, apparently intervened not because he feared a miscarriage of justice, but because the Kremlin hierarchy recognized that a verdict exonerating Budanov would leave the army itself vulnerable.

So only a guilty verdict would suffice, but it still had to be qualified with a finding of insanity.

Last week's bruising battle over the medium-term future of the Union's budget has confirmed that verdict with a vengeance.

Indeed, to continue to fail the world's at-risk children is to deliver a verdict of wanton inhumanity against ourselves, for we are a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass destruction of human life.

But Smith's verdict on the ethics of assistance in dying - and of the facts regarding jurisdictions, like the Netherlands and Oregon, that have it - seems likely to stand for a long time to come.

But the court of public opinion has already rendered its verdict on the far more relevant question of the ethics of that behavior.

So a fair verdict would be that the FSB has done no more and no less than what its political masters have been prepared to allow it to do.

The court's verdict was based on falsified documents.

Following the verdict, bailiffs confiscated our equipment, prohibited the publishing house from printing our newspaper, and, most importantly, seized our business bank accounts, rendering us unable to pay the fine.

After the court delivered its verdict, the regime halved the sentence and agreed to keep Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, rather than moving her to one of its worst jails.

Estrada remains adored by the masses, but so far the public's reaction to the verdict has been nonviolent and almost subdued.

At least, that's the verdict I gleaned from the just-completed annual China Development Forum, long China's most important dialogue with the outside world.

The market's verdict is likely to be uncompromising.

But voters' verdict on their governments was more or less identical: things went wrong on your watch, so out you go.

Maritain accepted the Pope's verdict and began a remarkable ideological journey toward democracy.