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The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.陪审团通过了有罪的判决，同时请求法官从宽处理。
Protestors gathered outside the court to await the verdict.抗议者聚集在法庭外等待判决。
After five days of deliberations, the jury decided on a verdict of not guilty.
The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.验尸官所作出的鉴定结论是意外致死。
Many politicians and members of the public expressed outrage at the verdict.许多政治家和公众人物表达了对这一判决的愤慨。

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Judgments and analyses

verdict | American Dictionary

verdict
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɜr·dɪkt/
a decision by a jury as to whether someone is guilty after having heard the facts given at a trial:
The jury reached/returned a verdict of not guilty after six hours of deliberation.
A verdict is also any judgment or opinion given after considering the facts of a situation:
City planners think it’s a good idea to ban traffic from downtown streets, but the public’s verdict is that it’s a stupid idea.

verdict | Business English

verdict
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈvɜːdɪkt/us
LAW
an official decision made in a court at the end of a trial:
We disagree with this jury's verdict.
a verdict of guilty/not guilty
reach/record/return a verdictThe jury reached a verdict of not guilty.
a verdict against/for sbToday's verdict for the defense reflects recognition by the jury that the company acted responsibly.
a majority/unanimous verdict
someone's opinion or judgement about something:
deliver/give/issue your verdict on sthShares in the oil giant plummeted as investors gave their verdict on the environmental disaster.
The voters delivered their verdict on the administration's policies, with a resounding defeat of the party.

Examples of verdict

verdict
On the railroad's motion for a new trial, the trial court reduced the amount of the judgment by $3,000 but refused to set aside the verdict.
Whenever a disagreement arose, a third observer designated by consensus by the working group issued the final verdict.
Two of the three judges who delivered dissenting verdicts in this contempt case have since been retired, for technically legitimate but involuntary reasons.
Nowhere, however, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, let alone pronouncing a verdict on the very faith of the emperor.
How could a guilty verdict be judged a masterpiece?
They thus used their review authority to protect individual judges from incur ring any responsibility for mistaken verdicts.
The decision of each court, then, amounted to a verdict about the family's history and identity.
We showed that juror bias is not necessarily the most important element of a juror's verdict determination calculus.
His verdicts are assertions that are made from the perspective of that system.
This was manifested in his dichotomous reaction to the verdict.
When the jury produces a liability verdict and a damages award, it plays a direct role in the creation of an entitlement.
Symmetrical special-majority rules remedy that defect, albeit at the cost of often rendering no determinate verdict.
This issue has come up in a variety of contexts-for example, re the question of possible verdict differences between so-called death-qualified and not-death-qualified jurors.
The mission of the prosecution is to help the court reach the right verdict, not maximize punishment.
This is clearly a highly significant issue about which the economic literature at present delivers no very clear verdict.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withverdict

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These are words often used in combination with verdict.

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directed verdict
The judge's directed verdict says that a reasonable person could not believe that the evidence proved the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
final verdict
Only then will we be in a position to render a finalverdict.
jury verdict
To re-open the case would be, in effect, to re-open a juryverdict.
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