Sentence examples for compromise verdict from inspiring English sources

For those hoping for a harsher penalty, the compromise verdict was disappointing.

That request was an obvious effort to forestall a compromise verdict.

John Burris, a lawyer representing the family, described it as a "compromise verdict".

"We're not looking for a compromise verdict here," said Bennett M. Epstein, another lawyer for Officer Carroll.

A lawyer for Greenwich, John Wayne Fox, said the jury's "compromise verdict" was less harsh than it could have been.

Lawyers for the city, Patricia Miller and Frank M. Esposito, both said they saw the low damages as a compromise verdict.

They're distilled in a picture by Mr. Pirkle of the shattered window of the Panthers' Oakland headquarters, bullet-blasted by police after a compromise manslaughter verdict was passed in the Newton trial.

Justice: Compromise on a verdict so the defendant gets some punishment.

Later, the jury forewoman suggested to my colleague Dan Bilefsky that the verdict involved compromise.

Her lawyer asked the jury not to compromise on a lesser verdict, and Ms. Harris was convicted of second-degree murder.

A number of the 2001 jurors also said the speculation that the Ghailani jurors might have had to compromise to reach a verdict made sense, perhaps to appease one juror who complained to the judge that she was alone in her position — apparently to acquit Mr. Ghailani — and that other jurors were attacking her for her views.