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remand::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | return |
Examples of remand
remand
Half that is three months, time on remand before sentence could be about 3 weeks.
From the guardian.co.uk
Osebu, a 30-year-old Ethiopian, was on remand, charged with murdering his wife.
From the guardian.co.uk
A former remand prison dedicated to showing the brutality and secrecy of the DDR.
From the guardian.co.uk
Remands in custody relating to the riots are far higher than normal remand rates.
From the guardian.co.uk
Another six, including an alleged murderer, are in jail on remand awaiting trial.
From the express.co.uk
Moreover, if there is a remand, that adds more months or years to the process.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
He has already served 91 days on remand, which will be deducted from his sentence.
From the menmedia.co.uk
Jordan's attorneys have asked the trial judge to remand his case to juvenile court.
From the cnn.com
Because of time spent on remand he did not have to serve a further sentence.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Remit: refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
- The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)
- Imprison: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- The term remand may be used to describe an action by an appellate court in which it remands, or sends back, a case to the trial court or lower appellate court for action.
- The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. ...
- To put over a criminal proceeding to another date; unlike civil proceedings where an adjournment might be to an unfixed date, a remand requires the court to set a future date when the matter will come back before the court; see Adjournment;
- The period of time before a criminal charge is finally dealt with by the court
- To commit a person to prison, or to release them on bail, during a period of adjournment of a hearing of a criminal charge in the High or District Court. When a case is adjourned the defendant is remanded.
- Held in custody until next court appearance.
