verdict
Courtroom final word
A verdict is the formal decision reached by a jury at the end of a trial: The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
By extension, verdict applies to any authoritative judgment or conclusion: The critics' verdict was unanimous praise.
To render a verdict is to deliver one officially.
Legal decision-making body
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
conviction · sentence · deliberation · evidence · testimony · prosecution · defense · judge
Settled course of action
- findingConclusion from investigation
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- rulingFormal legal determination
pronouncement · decree · outcome · result · final say · unanimous decision · split decision · majority
What follows a cause
- consequenceResult of an action
- aftermathResults following an event
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- closureSense of emotional resolution
finality · reckoning · moment of truth · day of judgment · fate · destiny · comeuppance · just deserts
Formal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- takeCapture or filmed segment
- appraisalEstimation of worth
critique · review · thumbs up · thumbs down · reception · consensus · public opinion · final word
jury
Legal decision-making body
acquittal · conviction · sentence · deliberation · evidence · testimony · prosecution · defense · judge · plea
decision
Settled course of action
- findingConclusion from investigation
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- conclusionEnd or deduction
ruling · pronouncement · decree · outcome · result · final say · unanimous decision · split decision · majority · dissent
result
What follows a cause
- consequenceResult of an action
- aftermathResults following an event
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
closure · finality · reckoning · moment of truth · day of judgment · fate · destiny · comeuppance · just deserts
assessment
Formal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- takeCapture or filmed segment
appraisal · critique · review · thumbs up · thumbs down · reception · consensus · public opinion · final word · pronouncement
- courtroomjudge, jury, oath taking, lawyer, bench
- courtroom expressionsobjection, sustained, overruled, all rise, guilty
- criminal trialarraignment, defense attorney, courtroom, criminal trial, prosecutor
- legallawyer, judge, jury, trial, case
- decisive actionsultimatum, veto, ruling, declaration, decree
- Final decisionsruling, judgment, final ruling, last word, decision
verdictdeadlock
Mutual blocking, no progress
hung jury · mistrial · stalemate · indecision · standoff
verdictcharge
Cost or accusation
indictment · accusation · arraignment · plea · allegation
verdictaccusation
Claim someone did wrong
allegation · charge · claim · speculation · conjecture
- guilty verdictCourt's culpability determination
- final verdictConclusive legal determination
- not guilty verdict
- jury verdictDeliberating body's formal decision
- unanimous verdictJury's fully shared decision
- trial verdictCourt's official decision