criminal verdict
Guilty or acquitted
A criminal verdict is the formal decision reached by a jury or judge in a criminal trial, declaring the defendant guilty or not guilty of the charges.
Unlike civil verdicts, which determine liability, criminal verdicts carry the possibility of imprisonment or other punishment.
The jury returned a criminal verdict of guilty on all counts.
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- death penaltyLegal execution for crimes
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
- juryLegal decision-making body
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- verdictsguilty, not guilty, acquitted, innocent, convicted
criminal verdictacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
conviction · not guilty verdict · guilty verdict · hung jury · exoneration
criminal verdictsentence
Complete thought, grammatically
sentencing · indictment · criminal charge · arraignment · plea bargain
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