(v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isabel LeBourdais, a Canadian journalist, published a book defending Truscott that eventually led to a judicial rehearing, but his conviction was upheld.
(2) On Tuesday, the group filed an emergency motion for a rehearing, suggesting that it be conducted “en banc,” that is, before the full court.
(3) The appellant is applying for an order setting aside the judgment of the House of Lords and, if granted, for permission to rely on fresh evidence at the rehearing of the appeal.” Families were forced to leave the islands in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a US air force base on the largest island, Diego Garcia.
(4) So an appeal is not a rehearing of the evidence: the appeal judges cannot overturn an earlier decision simply because they might have decided the case differently themselves.
(5) On Tuesday the office of the attorney general, Scott Pruitt, asked the state supreme court to rehear the case, arguing the court had caused chaos for the bifurcated appeals system of the state .
(6) A three-judge panel of the ninth circuit upheld the conviction in a unanimous vote last year, but a majority of the court’s 28 participating judges voted to have the larger group rehear the appeal.
(7) The Wisconsin Department of Justice sent an email in response to requests for comment, stating: “We have nothing to add regarding today’s denial for a rehearing en banc in the federal voter ID cases.” The state attorney general filed a brief with the seventh circuit court of appeals on Tuesday, asking that it refuse to re-hear the case.
(8) On Tuesday, the state attorney general, Scott Pruitt, asked the state supreme court to rehear the case, and the court rejected that request almost immediately.
Retry
Definition:
(v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
(2) Twenty-four-hour blood pressure monitoring in two of the four centers demonstrated an error code rate of 3.4%, excluding 'retries' that are one of the device's features.
(3) Allen was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London after an Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict in January.
(4) He will be retried along with the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman who allegedly requested the payments.
(5) He was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London but the Crown Prosecution Service revealed last week that he had admitted three charges relating to the plot.
(6) But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried earlier this month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
(7) It is able to quash a lower court's verdict if it finds errors of law were made, as it did last March when it annulled the pair's 2011 acquittals and ordered the Florence appeals court to retry the appeal.
(8) And you can never be afraid of being you.” Dunn was later retried and convicted in October for the killing of Davis, and we all breathed a brief sigh of relief that the jury believed Davis’ life mattered enough to punish the man who took it .
(9) State solicitor Scarlett Wilson said in a statement she would retry the case “whenever the court calls”.
(10) Only this year, the UK’s supreme court ruled that for the past 30 years British judges have been misconstruing crucial aspects of the joint enterprise guidelines, which may yet lead to scores, if not hundreds, of cases being reassessed and possibly retried.
(11) The family thanked him for a strong presentation,” he told the Guardian, “but they made it very, very clear that they definitely want to see the case put before a new jury and that this thing get retried.” Samuel DuBose police shooting: settlement 'won't bring Sam back' Read more DuBose’s family felt supported by the prosecutor and the community, Gerhardstein said, but felt the mistrial was a “terrible way to get any sort of resolution in this tragedy”.
(12) He will be retried along with the paper’s former royal editor Clive Goodman.
(13) It was the European court of human rights in Strasbourg that decided , in January 2012, that there was a real risk of Qatada being retried in Jordan on evidence that had been obtained by the torture of his two co-defendants.
(14) But after his appeal was dismissed, Fayadh, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia , was retried and a new panel of judges last week ruled that he should be executed.
(15) Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
(16) "I think if they are not freed they must be retried with a fair trial because all of the trials were unfair with confessions extracted by torture and a lack of an independent judge.
(17) Now we can stop being distracted by elections and get back to work on what's really needed: releasing military prisoners, retrying those convicted in military courts, implementing a minimum and maximum wage, and so on."
(18) Three journalists from its English-language channel are being retried on charges of being part of a terrorist group and airing falsified footage.
(19) " Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
(20) The families of all three victims are pushing to have their cases retried as a single trial .