The phrase "arraignment room" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a specific courtroom where defendants are formally charged and enter a plea.
Example: "The defendant was led into the arraignment room to face the charges against him."
Alternatives: "courtroom for arraignment" or "plea room".
It was, after all, 2 30 on a Saturday morning in the arraignment room of the Manhattan Criminal Court Building, not quite midway through what has for years been one of the most trying sessions on the court calendar -- the so-called lobster shift, from 1 to 8 a.m.
I escaped down below to Room 130, which is perhaps the most "popular"—the arraignment room.
All cases are moved to the arraignment room after dark; everything else in the building shuts down.
Indeed, behind the grandiose bronzed double doors to Room 130, otherwise known as AR1 (arraignments, Room 1) buzzed a universe unto itself, with police officers, court clerks, lawyers, defendants and their families all trying to keep their eyes wide open for the first milepost in a defendant's journey through the court system.
In tea shops and living rooms, the arraignment of Mr. Hussein brought the country's public and private realms together in a way they have not been since the former dictator was captured by the Americans seven months ago.
A federal magistrate judge came to his hospital room for the arraignment on charges stemming from the double bombing that killed three and wounded more than 200 people.
Keeping a watchful eye over the proceedings was United States Attorney Christopher J. Christie, a regular at Mr. Adubato's annual event in recent years, and whose personal contact with that many elected officials in one room is usually limited to arraignments.
The City Room column on Monday, about the 1928 arraignment of the actor W. C. Fields, who was charged with torturing a canary, misstated the trajectory of his career up to that time.
Most of the precinct's prisoners were wedged into the property room and an open courtyard between the cells awaiting their arraignment.
His defense attorney, Jeffrey C. Hoffman, said at an arraignment on Dec. 11 that the fact that Mr. Brooks returned to the room at all should cast doubt on the theory that he had harmed or killed Ms. Cachay.
Usually this room is filled with reporters sticking around for a particular arraignment, but tonight, it was empty.
