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The first courtroom hello, where charges get read aloud and you finally have to answer.
means The formal court proceeding where a defendant is brought before a judge, hears the charges against them read aloud, and enters a plea.
from From Old French araisnier, 'to address, call to account,' built from the Latin prefix ad- ('to') and ratio ('reasoning, reckoning, account') — the same ratio behind 'reason' and 'ration.' So at its root, an arraignment is the moment you're called to give your account.
- two words
- Where defendants utter their first guilty or not
- speedy required
- Constitution demands it happen without undue delay
- bail decided
- Freedom or jail often set here, fast
- plain reading
- Court must state charges in understandable terms
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