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At around 6 p.m., he called to say that she was probably still "hours away" from being docketed or arraigned , but Eamon's arraignment would be within the next half hour.
Tett appears as a key witness in "Inside Job", Charles Ferguson's very effective film arraignment of the American bankers' conspiracy against the people.
Offenders processed there are 10% less likely to commit new crimes in the two years after their arraignment than offenders processed in traditional courts.
Instead, the arraignment hearing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other al-Qaeda suspects became another instalment in the long-running farce or tragedy of America's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay".KSM", as security types usually refer to the camp's most famous inmate, was chatting, laughing and reciting Koranic verses throughout the proceedings.
Speculation mounted that the unnamed parties included Britain's Tesco.No optionThe FBI said the former chief executive of Comverse was now considered a fugitive from justice after he failed to appear at an arraignment for fraud connected to backdated stock-options; the former head of finance and former general counsel at the technology firm were charged at the hearing.
On Thursday November 3rd, he pleaded not guilty to the charges at a short arraignment hearing, and the judge set the next hearing for February 3rd.
Fifteen years later, in Mallory v. United States (1957), the court reaffirmed the McNabb prompt-arraignment rule by vacating the conviction of a man who had confessed to rape during a delay of more than 18 hours between his arrest and his arraignment.
Amid all this confusing variety, however, there is pressure toward order internally, from the arraignment of vice and appeal to virtue, and externally, from the often shadowy dramatic situation that frames the poem.
A reference in John 18 20 22 to an officer who struck Jesus at his arraignment before Annas is sometimes cited as the basis for the legend.
Arraignment , in Anglo-American law, first encounter of an accused person with the court prior to trial, wherein he is brought to the bar and the charges against him are read.
Further opposition to the Bishop and his Savoyard connection led to Berthelier's arraignment on a charge of lèse-majesté (March 16, 1518); and, although acquitted by the citizens' committees (syndics), he was nonetheless summarily arrested and executed.
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The primary grammatical function of "arraignment" is as a noun , referring to a specific legal proceeding. It can also function as part of a compound noun, as shown in the Ludwig examples, such as "arraignment hearing". Ludwig AI confirms that the word is correctly used.
Expression frequency: Very common
