A trial court or court of first instance is a court having original jurisdiction, in which trials take place. Appeals from the decisions of trial courts...
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The regional trial courts (RTC; Filipino: Panrehiyong Hukuman sa Paglilitis) are the highest trial courts in the Philippines. In criminal matters, they...
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bench trial. Hearings before administrative bodies may have many of the features of a trial before a court, but are typically not referred to as trials. An...
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including trial courts that hold trials and appellate courts that hear appeals. Two major legal traditions of the western world are the civil law courts and...
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concentrated in a single trial rather than multiple hearings, and appellate review of trial court decisions is greatly limited. Jury trials are of far less importance...
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trial, alleging that the court clerk tampered with the jury; a new trial court judge denied the motion in January 2024. Local media called the trial South...
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The YSL Records racketeering trial is an ongoing criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia, which involves American rapper Young Thug (born Jeffery Williams)...
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appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of the world, court systems are divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially...
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but which intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations (compare show trial). A kangaroo court could also develop when the structure...
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courts involved; finalization of the settlement by the court was announced on February 1, 2008. On October 10, 2003, after one of the longest trials in...
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Judiciary of the Philippines (section Supreme Court)
country. Decisions from this court can only be appealed to the Supreme Court. Below this level are Regional Trial Courts, which are spread throughout...
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The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each...
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In 1649, the Rump Parliament established an ad hoc High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. The English...
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judge and three appointed lay judges. The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the Stockholm District Court, Sweden. The hearings ended on 3 March 2009...
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execution warrant. This is done when a person, in trial court proceedings, has been sentenced to death, after trial and conviction, and usually after appeals...
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used to refer to the superior trial court of original jurisdiction in the Province. This terminology is used in the court systems of Ontario and Quebec...
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Priyadarshini Mattoo (section Trial Court Judgment)
Inspector-General of Police, had earlier been acquitted by a trial court in 1999, and the High Court decision was widely perceived in India as a landmark reversal...
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The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York. It is vested with unlimited...
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Godhra train burning (section Trial and court verdict)
Scholars remain skeptical about the claims of arson. In February 2011, the trial court convicted 31 Muslims for the train burning, relying heavily on the Nanavati-Mehta...
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committed to another court) and state trial courts regularly have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts. Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction...
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Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person being tried is not present. In absentia is Latin for "in (the) absence"...
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King's Bench (redirect from Court of Queen's Bench)
Court of King's Bench of Alberta, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, the superior trial court...
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A court-martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a...
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Lawsuit (redirect from Civil court case)
percent of civil cases in the United States federal courts are resolved without a trial. Domestic courts are also often called upon to apply foreign law,...
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The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction...
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place before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, U.S. The trial centered on a number of independently...
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of the trial: Complete trial transcripts and other court documents at University of Minnesota Law Library The World's Most Famous Court Trial on the website...
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Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the...
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Steven Avery (redirect from The Steven Avery Trial)
possibility of parole. The conviction was upheld by higher courts. Avery's 2007 murder trial and its associated issues are the focus of the 2015 Netflix...
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A new trial or retrial is a recurrence of a court case. A new trial may potentially be ordered for some or all of the matters at issue in the original...
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