idiot defense n.— «The Enron Corp. trial opening Jan. 30 in Houston is shaping up to be the biggest test yet of the so-called idiot defense.…No chief executive “knows everything going on in his company,” Lay said in one...
panel beating n.— «De Villiers and Goosen, according to trial testimony, conducted a blood-oath ceremony pledging secrecy among members of their all-white police riot squad before going into the Craddock township on July 26, 1986, on what...
lick n.— «“(Ibrahim) came to my door and asked me if I wanted to do a lick,” said Brown, who was 14 years old at the time of the murder, adding a lick is a street term for a robbery or burglary.» —“Ibrahim trial in 2002...
talker
n.— «It’s a talker. And people are saying it’s the trial of the century.» —“Kansans Watch as Innocent Verdict Comes in for Simpson” AP Oct. 3, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
pull n.— «Done properly, a team time trial is nearly mesmerizing to watch. Most teams ride in single file, with the riders taking turns at the front—taking a “pull,” in cycling parlance—before giving way and falling to the...
dump truck n.— «Once they realize you’re not resisting their demand to go to trial and their demand that they pay you some attention…then they will drop their resistance to a plea bargain based specifically on you as the dump truck...