All 34 Uses of
arraign
in
Nineteen Minutes
- 'Arraignments,' Alex replied.†
Chpt 1
- But there were miles to drive and defendants to arraign and chemical equations to interpret, and by the time Josie had set the bacon to drain on a pad of paper toweling, the moment had winged away.†
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- By the time she backed her car out of the garage, her head was already focused on the decision she had to write that afternoon; the number of arraignments the clerk would have stuffed onto her docket; the motions that would have fallen like shadows across her desk between Friday afternoon and this morning.†
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- There were seventy arraignments scheduled for that morning, and the courtroom was packed.†
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- Alex scanned the files she needed for that morning's run of arraignments.†
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- 'You'll be arraigned tomorrow.†
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- The breakfast broadcast of the three local network news stations was devoted to that morning's arraignment of Peter Houghton.†
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- 'The arraignment,' Josie said.†
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- 'I know that nothing's going to happen at that arraignment that's going to be a surprise to anyone.†
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- Peter Houghton was just arraigned on ten counts of first-degree murder and nineteen counts of attempted first-degree murder, and various accompanying charges involving illegal possession of explosives and firearms in this recent tragedy.†
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- An arraignment at a courthouse fit like a Band-Aid over a wound that really needed a tourniquet.†
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- After sitting at home for five days after Peter's arraignment, one morning he woke up and packed his briefcase, ate his cornflakes, read the paper, and headed off to work.†
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- He recognized some of the same people who'd come to the arraignment, but also a host of other faces that were new, and that wouldn't have been intimately connected to the high school: the elderly, the college kids, the couples with young babies.†
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- When I was supposed to shut up at the arraignment?†
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- For the arraignment'I brought you a nice jacket to wear.†
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- For the arraignment I just wear these clothes.†
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- By the time Diana reached the docket board to check which judge was sitting on the Houghton arraignment, Jordan McAfee was already standing there.†
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- We need to have a chambers conference with the judge before the arraignment.†
Chpt 1
- Judge Cormier was already in her robe, ready to start the arraignment.
Chpt 1 *arraignment = court proceeding in which a defendant responds to legal charges
- I just'I wanted to ask before we got out there in front of everyone whether the court was planning to just handle the arraignment, or if you're planning to sit during the whole case?'†
Chpt 1
- They'd dribbled away over the past week-no doubt there was some tragedy somewhere else for these reporters to cover-but returned in full force to report on the arraignment.†
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- But if it had been this hard at the arraignment, how would she function when the prosecution began to actually outline the events of that day?†
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- She could feel the secretary's eyes on her-clearly the woman wanted to know why Judge Cormier was standing in front of her desk instead of at the courthouse presiding over the arraignment that they were all waiting to hear about.†
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- The arraignment?†
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- Alex had been rattled by her own emotions during the arraignment; instead of telling herself she was being ridiculous, she'd acted on them.†
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- Even about the arraignment?†
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- Even about the arraignment.†
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- Two days after Peter's arraignment in superior court, Selena sat down with the principal of Sterling High in his modified elementary school office.†
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- But then they'd had that conversation after the arraignment; her mother had gone out of her way to let Josie know that acting like a judge on this case would not be mutually exclusive to acting like a mother.†
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- It was true that she'd been more rattled during the arraignment than she'd anticipated.†
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- In the days since Peter had confessed that his father didn't come to see him, through the arraignment and afterward, Lacy had kept this secret hidden.†
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- He was about to leave the cell when he realized he had not been given a bulletproof vest, as he had for the arraignment.†
Chpt 2
- She wondered if the grieving mother from the arraignment would be there.†
Chpt 2
- It was dejà vu-this was exactly what had happened the day of Peter's arraignment, except that seemed so long ago, and she and Josie had both been very different people back then.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(arraign) call before a court to answer an indictment
or:
accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy