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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....
- and his office was fined. On 12 December 2008 an inquest returned an open verdict. Menezes's death led to protests in Brazil and prompted apologies from...
- 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...
- into the deaths were held in 1981 and 2004. Both inquests recorded open verdicts. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, a New Cross M****acre Action...
- 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...
- cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates. An inquest recorded an open verdict, because it was not possible to establish whether his death was suicide...
- 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...