Plural of verdict

regular plural

The plural of verdict is verdicts.

Forms of verdict

There was a time that the only verdicts a jury could return were proven or not proven.2014, Francis Pakes, Comparative Criminal Justice, page 12. From the entry not proven
For example jury trials were reformed to allow majority verdicts, so that criminals could less easily nobble them.2002, Kevin Jefferys, Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown, page 107. From the entry nobble
Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias.1961, Harvard Law Review, volume 74, page 457. From the entry utterer
When the agent and the attributer-with-audience have highly similar stakes in the matter in question, then sensitive invariantism and contextualism yields parallel verdicts.2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI. From the entry invariantism
This anger escalated and later exploded when innocent verdicts were given to four police officers standing trial for the beating of Rodney King.1999, John Lie, Nancy Abelmann, “The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the ‘Black–Korean Conflict’”, in Kwang Chung Kim, editor, Koreans in the…. From the entry stand trial

noun A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
noun An opinion or judgement.

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