Definition of Open verdict. Meaning of Open verdict. Synonyms of Open verdict

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Definition of Open verdict

Open verdict
Open verdict Open verdict (Law) A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.

Meaning of Open verdict from wikipedia

- The open verdict is an option open to a coroner's jury at an inquest in the legal system of England and Wales. The verdict means the jury confirms the...
- The Verdict is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same...
- was recorded with an open verdict, before being ruled as unlawful killing by a jury on appeal and finally returned to an open verdict by the High Court....
- United Kingdom as jury equity, or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant...
- Pell v The Queen. The currently applied test is whether the guilty verdict was "open to the jury" to be satisfied of the accused's guilt beyond reasonable...
- suicide, and lacking sufficient evidence of the cir****stances, recorded an open verdict. Dannemann stated that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax...
- the Metropolitan Police initially declared his death accidental, an open verdict was later returned. Speculation remains as to a racial motive behind...
- the coroner at the inquest into Berezovsky's death later recorded an open verdict. Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born in 1946, in Moscow, to Abram Markovich...
- into Woolmer's death. In November 2007, a jury in Jamaica recorded an open verdict on Woolmer's death. Woolmer was born in the Georgina McRobert Memorial...
- months later, known as Bloody Sunday. The 1972 inquests had returned an open verdict on all of the killings, but a 2021 coroner's report found that all those...