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twelve strangers deciding your fate after agreeing the donuts were stale.
means Verdicts are the formal decisions a jury or judge reaches about whether someone is guilty or liable at the end of a trial.
from From the Latin 'veredictum,' literally 'a thing truly said' — 'vere' (truly) plus 'dictum' (spoken). It traveled into English through Anglo-Norman French as 'verdit,' the courtroom's word for a sworn declaration of the truth, before settling back toward its Latin spelling. So buried in the word is a quiet demand: not just a decision, but a truth-telling.
- origin
- From Latin vere dictum, meaning truly said.
- unanimity
- Most U.S. felony verdicts require all twelve jurors agree.
- deadlock
- A hung jury means no verdict, just exhaustion.
- speed record
- Some juries return verdicts in under ten minutes.
- acquittal sticks
- Double jeopardy bars retrying a not-guilty verdict.
for instance
nuremberg trials verdicts — 12 nazi leaders sentenced to death in 1946 for war crimes