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The bailiff escorted them from the courtroom.bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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The bailiff was accused of making prejudicial statements to the jury.
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Then he added stick figures of the bailiff, the judge, and the recorder and explained their roles. (source)
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"Please rise," the bailiff requested. (source)
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The courtroom was packed, and the bailiff brought the court to order as the judge walked in. (source)
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The clerk called Peter's case, and two bailiffs led him through a doorway. (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of prisoners while in court
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The court bailiff carried the sealed verdicts to the bench. (source)bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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Or send the bailiffs round.† (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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The bailiff took Angel by the arm and led her toward the door. (source)bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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She has experience at it, at standing before judges and bailiffs, pleading.† (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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Her wallet and sweatshirt were taken from her—the bailiff told Luma she couldn't wear the garment in the jail because it might be contaminated with lice. (source)bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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Oh, it's cost him plenty-but he's bought the judge, the clerks, the bailiffs, their backers, their backers' backers, a few legislators, half a dozen administrators-he's bought the whole legal process, like a private thoroughfare, and there's no single crossroad left for me to squeeze through to stop it!† (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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The judge asked that Mrs. Henderson be subpoenaed, and when Momma arrived and said she was Mrs. Henderson, the judge, the bailiff and other whites in the audience laughed. (source)bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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I see her going to the town with her basket; and Arthur Davies goes with her; I see her knitting on the hall step while we play cricket; I see her stretching her arms out to Mrs Williams when the bailiffs took possession of their house and the Captain stood at the window bawling and shying jugs, basins, chamber pots onto the gravel — "Come to us, Mrs Williams"; "No, Mrs Stephen," sobbed Mrs Williams, "I will not leave my husband."† (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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She was fetched from a witness room and led to the stand by a bailiff. (source)bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
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And the audience—seeing to its astonishment, Clyde, accompanied by Reuben Jephson, making his way forward—straining and whispering in spite of all the gruff commands of the judge and the bailiffs.† (source)bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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