Courthouse
noun
A building where legal cases are heard and decided on.
The trial will be held at the downtown courthouse.
Often appears as...
- go to the courthouse
- courthouse steps
noun
A building where legal cases are heard and decided on.
The trial will be held at the downtown courthouse.
Often appears as...
- go to the courthouse
- courthouse steps
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Importance
Courthouses are central to legal systems, where judgements and laws are enforced.
Everyone must remain silent when the judge enters the courthouse courtroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Access
Most courthouses are open to the public for observation of legal proceedings.
Students went to the courthouse to watch a real trial for their class assignment.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Justice
Courthouses often symbolize fairness and justice in society.
The old courthouse has a statue of Lady Justice out front.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Importance
Courthouses are central to legal systems, where judgements and laws are enforced.
Everyone must remain silent when the judge enters the courthouse courtroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Access
Most courthouses are open to the public for observation of legal proceedings.
Students went to the courthouse to watch a real trial for their class assignment.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Justice
Courthouses often symbolize fairness and justice in society.
The old courthouse has a statue of Lady Justice out front.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Importance
Courthouses are central to legal systems, where judgements and laws are enforced.
Everyone must remain silent when the judge enters the courthouse courtroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Access
Most courthouses are open to the public for observation of legal proceedings.
Students went to the courthouse to watch a real trial for their class assignment.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Justice
Courthouses often symbolize fairness and justice in society.
The old courthouse has a statue of Lady Justice out front.
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We need to talk about an...
in my car and I went to this courthouse and was sitting what this is gonna be so difficult so so painful I finally got out of the car and I started walking up to the courthouse and as I was walking up the steps of this courthouse there was an older black man who was the janitor in this courthouse when this man saw me he came over to me and he said
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How judges can show...
and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me. Now, I am not telling you what I think, I am telling you what I have lived, using procedural justice to change the culture at my courthouse
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The urgent need for...
decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the courthouse square sometimes brutalized burned alive the demographic geography of this nation was shaped by terrorism
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A Reckoning in Tulsa PIPE...
action a group of armed african-american world war one vets drive down to the courthouse that night and tell the sheriff they want to defend the courthouse the sheriff tells them to leave as they're leaving an elderly white man went up to a tall black vet and said where are you going with that gun
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The US is addicted to...
and this implicates every one of us. So what you need to do, is as I said, you need to get educated, you also need to get proximate to this. And by getting proximate, I mean you need to go and see how our criminal legal system operates. That may mean go to a local criminal courthouse,
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Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
He once said that he laughed so he did not cry, that a good story, for him, was better than a drop of whiskey. His storytelling powers had first been recognized when he was on the circuit in Illinois. The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other,
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Thom Mayne: Architecture...
and then that led us to, kind of, the very differences of our worlds from a legal and an artistic, architectural. And it forced us to talk about notions of how we work, and the dynamics of that, and what other sources of the work is. And it led us to the project, the courthouse,
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Veteran Behind Bars PIPE...
I do not believe that I'm going to be in prison for the rest of my life I believe that I've got enough in me to be one of those guys you see walking out of the courthouse you know on TV on the news after such
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A juror's reflections on...
it was apparent that he was deeply saddened by what we were required to do. He relived the day that he left the courthouse and he drove home and he went to put his key in his door and unlock it,
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How revenge porn turns...
You're looking at a woman who spent 11 months in court, thirteen trips to the courthouse and thousands of dollars in legal fees, just to get two a protection from cyberstalking and cyberabuse,
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We need to talk about an...
in my car and I went to this courthouse and was sitting what this is gonna be so difficult so so painful I finally got out of the car and I started walking up to the courthouse and as I was walking up the steps of this courthouse there was an older black man who was the janitor in this courthouse when this man saw me he came over to me and he said
Video examples
How judges can show...
and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me. Now, I am not telling you what I think, I am telling you what I have lived, using procedural justice to change the culture at my courthouse
Video examples
The urgent need for...
decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the courthouse square sometimes brutalized burned alive the demographic geography of this nation was shaped by terrorism
Video examples
A Reckoning in Tulsa PIPE...
action a group of armed african-american world war one vets drive down to the courthouse that night and tell the sheriff they want to defend the courthouse the sheriff tells them to leave as they're leaving an elderly white man went up to a tall black vet and said where are you going with that gun
Video examples
The US is addicted to...
and this implicates every one of us. So what you need to do, is as I said, you need to get educated, you also need to get proximate to this. And by getting proximate, I mean you need to go and see how our criminal legal system operates. That may mean go to a local criminal courthouse,
Video examples
Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
He once said that he laughed so he did not cry, that a good story, for him, was better than a drop of whiskey. His storytelling powers had first been recognized when he was on the circuit in Illinois. The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other,
Video examples
Thom Mayne: Architecture...
and then that led us to, kind of, the very differences of our worlds from a legal and an artistic, architectural. And it forced us to talk about notions of how we work, and the dynamics of that, and what other sources of the work is. And it led us to the project, the courthouse,
Video examples
Veteran Behind Bars PIPE...
I do not believe that I'm going to be in prison for the rest of my life I believe that I've got enough in me to be one of those guys you see walking out of the courthouse you know on TV on the news after such
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A juror's reflections on...
it was apparent that he was deeply saddened by what we were required to do. He relived the day that he left the courthouse and he drove home and he went to put his key in his door and unlock it,
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How revenge porn turns...
You're looking at a woman who spent 11 months in court, thirteen trips to the courthouse and thousands of dollars in legal fees, just to get two a protection from cyberstalking and cyberabuse,
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Kevin Barry
Irish Author
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.
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Lawrence O'Donnell
American Journalist
Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put your guy on the stand? Those conversations always assume the defendant is guilty. The question is just about the degree of difficulty in presenting a defense.
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Elmore Leonard
American Novelist
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.
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Joe Jamail
American Businessman
I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
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Medgar Evers
American Activist
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.
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Sherman Austin
American Activist
About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.
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Asa Hutchinson
American Lawyer
This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.
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Logic
American Musician
I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.
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Thurgood Marshall
American Judge
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Kim Reynolds
American Politician
My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.
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Kevin Barry
Irish Author
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.
Quote examples
Lawrence O'Donnell
American Journalist
Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put your guy on the stand? Those conversations always assume the defendant is guilty. The question is just about the degree of difficulty in presenting a defense.
Quote examples
Elmore Leonard
American Novelist
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.
Quote examples
Joe Jamail
American Businessman
I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
Quote examples
Medgar Evers
American Activist
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.
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Sherman Austin
American Activist
About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.
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Asa Hutchinson
American Lawyer
This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.
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Logic
American Musician
I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.
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Thurgood Marshall
American Judge
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Kim Reynolds
American Politician
My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.
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