trial court
the court in which a controversy is first adjudicated (distinguished from appellate division).
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His office brought in nearly $4 million in forfeitures in just the latest four years, from fiscal 2017 through 2020, according to analyses by the state’s trial court.
Massachusetts Police Can Easily Seize Your Money. The DA of One County Makes It Nearly Impossible to Get It Back. | by Saurabh Datar and Shannon Dooling, WBUR | August 18, 2021 | ProPublicaIn Worcester County, 84% of forfeiture cases in fiscal 2019 were default judgments, according to data from the trial court.
Massachusetts Police Can Easily Seize Your Money. The DA of One County Makes It Nearly Impossible to Get It Back. | by Saurabh Datar and Shannon Dooling, WBUR | August 18, 2021 | ProPublicaThey are asking a federal judge to prevent any of the state’s trial court judges, potentially more than 1,000 throughout Texas, from enforcing the law and to block court clerks from accepting the lawsuits.
Lawsuit targets Texas abortion law deputizing citizens to enforce six-week ban | Ann Marimow | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostThe city attorney’s office has said it expects to get a trial court ruling within a year but that any appeal of that ruling could slow the process.
City Attorney Mara Elliott’s office has said it anticipates a trial court ruling within a year, though an appeal of that ruling could extend the process.
Measure C Could Go Forward Even if Convention Center Expansion Doesn’t | Lisa Halverstadt | April 22, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
We look forward to proving their innocence and to their complete vindication before a trial court.
It was a stenographic transcript of testimony in a case which had been lost in the trial court and was now going up on appeal.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonThe trial court dodged the issue by directing the jury to find the prisoner not guilty on the ground of insanity.
A Book of Prefaces | H. L. MenckenThe business of the trial court is concluded as soon as the question of guilt is determined.
A Plea for the Criminal | James Leslie Allan KayllIn admiralty appeals the conclusions of fact reached by the trial court are specially set forth, and are final.
Everybody thought the trial court went to an excessive care.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square | Melville Davisson Post
British Dictionary definitions for trial court
law the first court before which the facts of a case are decided
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