verdicts
What juries deliver
Verdicts is the plural of verdict—formal decisions or judgments, especially those rendered by juries in trials: The jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts.
Beyond legal contexts, verdict extends to any authoritative conclusion or opinion: The verdict from critics was mixed, What's your verdict on the new restaurant?
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- rulingFormal legal determination
- decisionSettled course of action
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
sentence · guilty · not guilty · hung jury · unanimous · deliberation · foreman · juror
German trial city
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- treasonBetraying one's nation
- executionCompleting a planned task
pardon · clemency · amnesty · posthumous · overturned · wrongful conviction · innocence project · landmark
Subjective personal belief
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
consensus · reaction · backlash · outcry · approval · disapproval · condemnation · praise
Identification of illness
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- second opinionAdditional expert consultation
- terminalAt the endpoint
test results · benign · malignant · positive · negative · inconclusive · findings · consultation
judgment
Reasoned decision-making capacity
conviction · sentence · guilty · not guilty · hung jury · unanimous · deliberation · foreman · juror · courtroom
Nuremberg
German trial city
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- treasonBetraying one's nation
execution · pardon · clemency · amnesty · posthumous · overturned · wrongful conviction · innocence project · landmark · precedent
opinion
Subjective personal belief
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- conclusionEnd or deduction
evaluation · consensus · reaction · backlash · outcry · approval · disapproval · condemnation · praise · criticism
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- second opinionAdditional expert consultation
test results · terminal · benign · malignant · positive · negative · inconclusive · findings · consultation · specialist
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- legallawyer, judge, jury, trial, case
- legal systemattorney, landmark cases, criminal cases, lawyers, legal precedents
- Legal TVtrials, testimony, evidence, cross-examination, objections
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code
verdictscharges
Amounts owed or alleged
accusations · indictments · allegations · complaints · arraignments
verdictsmistrials
Invalid court proceedings
hung juries · deadlocks · impasses · indecisions · uncertainties
verdictsspeculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
conjecture · uncertainty · indecision · deliberations · hung juries
- 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