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• foreman (leader)
  the foreman of jury got to his feet to deliver his verdict.
  


• verdict (a decision made after judging the facts that are given)
  the jury returned a verdict of not guilty


• climax (the most important or exciting point in a story or situation)
  the election reaches its climax next week


• defendant (a person in a law case who is accused )


• descend (to go or come down)
  the darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night.
  the traditional tense silence descended on the court


• court (a building where trials happen / an area drawn out on the ground which is used for playing sports, such as tennis, volleyball, basketball)


• tickle (an uncomfortable feeling in your throat which makes you want to cough)
  a member of jury couldn't control the tickle in the back of his throat any longer


• devastated (very shocked and upset)
  she was utterly devastated when her husband died.


• devastating (making someone very shocked and upset)
  devastating news


• puzzled (confused because you don't understand something)
  one of the jurors was puzzled why he was jailed after being found not guilty


• console (make someone who is sad feel better)
  his lawyer tried to console him


• sentence (to decide and say officially what a punishment will be)
  he was sentenced to life imprisonment


• imprisonment (to put someone in prison (noun.))
  judge Gibbon sentenced Alan Rashid to two years' imprisonment


• imprison (to put someone in prison (verb.))
  he was imprisoned in 1965 for attempted murder.


• ill-timed
  the ill-timed cough


• drown out (a loud noise cover the sound)
  the ill-timed cough drowned out the vital word 'not'.


• convict (to decide officially in a court of law that someone is guilty)
  he has been convicted of robbery


• discharge (allow to leave)
  the judge discharged the jury


• mystify / mystified / mystifying (confuse)
  i was mystified by her decision


• usher (a man who shows people where they should sit, especially at a formal event such as wedding or at a theatre or cinema)
  a mystified juror asked a court usher why a man they had acquitted was being imprisoned


• acquit (to decide officially in a court of law that someone is not guilty)
  she was acquitted of all the charges against her


• hasty / hastily / hastiness (describe something that is done in a hurry)
  "he looks good for his age." she hastily added


• reconvene / convene (to arrange a meeting (again))
  the court was hastily reconvened


• bizarre (very strange and unusual)
  bizarre behaviour/situation


• offence (an illegal act, a crime)
  he committed several serious offences


• flatten (make thinner or become level)
  flatten the bottle


• inhale (to breath air, smoke or gas into your lung)


• exhale (to send air out of your lung)


• decriminalize (to stop something from being illegal)
  the campaign to decriminalize cannabis


• cannabis (marijuana)


• mind-altering (describe a drug has string influence on a person's mental state)


• contraband (goods which are brought into or taken out of a country illegally)


• lenient (not as severe in punishment as would be expected)
  they believe that judges are too lenient to terrorist suspects


• puberty
  at puberty, pubic hair develops and girls begin to menstruate


• consent (permission or agreement)
  they can't publish your name without your consent
  age of consent


• manslaughter (the crime of killing a person by someone who did not intend to do it)


• murder (the crime of intentionally killing a person)


• premeditated (planned)
  a premeditated murder/ attack