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retrial

/ riːˈtraɪəl /

noun

  1. a second or new trial, esp of a case that has already been adjudicated upon


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I was convicted a year later and sentenced to death—a charge later overturned by the Supreme Court when it called for a retrial.

The state, after consulting families, decided not to attempt a retrial of Michaels.

It was not a retrial per se, but rather a fresh look at the appeal process that freed Knox.

Smiling and waving, his conviction overturned, a confident Hosni Mubarak showed up for his retrial in Cairo.

Many activists and human-rights advocates met the news of the retrial with cautious optimism.

Letters to the Master of the Rolls ordering retrial of case concerning enclosure of commons at Bath.

The result of a doubtful (non liquet) verdict was a retrial of the case at some future time.

They had hoped to secure a countersign of their own judgment without a retrial by the governor.

It made an immense excitement; the State rose as one man and clamored for Clayton's pardon and retrial.

Mr. Henderson succeeded in getting a retrial, and even a third hearing, but still the man was under sentence of death.

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