supreme judicial court
Americannoun
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Prosecutors in Boston were angry at the judge’s decision and appealed to the state’s supreme judicial court, which found that the order to make Rotonda pay Pierce money was not lawful.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2018
She blamed the state supreme judicial court, which ruled in December 2013 that juveniles could not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2016
As a juvenile, he cannot receive a life sentence without parole following decisions by the US supreme court and the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts.
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2015
But Shirley Brown appealed to the state's supreme judicial court, which last week held that it is high time to change "the antediluvian assumptions concerning the role and status of women in marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
But this penalty is pronounced by the supreme judicial court or the court of common pleas.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
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