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How To Use verdict In A Sentence

• Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
• Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
• If you should be convinced by argument, not only that the pamphlet before you is not a libel, but that almost all those political writings, which it has been the habit of certain people, taking up the cry from their leaders, to call libels, are not merely not dangerous but beneficial to political society; is it possible to conceive, that you can be induced to pronounce a verdict of guilty against the defendant! A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father
• The exigencies of journalism demand instant appraisals and on-the-spot verdicts.
• He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished.
• The judge set aside the verdict of the lower court.
• The jury delivered a verdict of not guilty.
• The jury returned an open verdict.
• They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
• Over the course of three and a half days they listened to evidence presented by both sides, and then questioned the witnesses for both defence and prosecution before retiring to consider their verdict.