murder case
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- noun
- /ˈmɜrdər keɪs/
- NSFW
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caso de asesinato
- The detective worked tirelessly on a murder case that had baffled the police for years.
- solve a murder case
- capital murder case
- rape and murder case
Now, as I understand it, there was a finding that he had perjured himself in a prior murder case.
- Now, as I understand it, there was a finding that he had perjured himself in a prior murder case.
- She straight away said she she looked shocked at her profession and she said, daddy, that's not a murder case.
- I, I represented someone on a murder case last year in April.
- Another juicy murder case, another grave injustice.
- Like the last murder case I did, client got convicted, I did.
- And here we are defending for in a double murder case.
- I don't know if you've never been involved in a murder case.
- It's just all of the, the high profile, you know, being all, all murder, pretty much all murder cases.
- And it's like, if you're someone like me who's gone and, you know, investigated a, a cold murder case, these would be red flags in someone's character.
- I've been an expert witness in case, in, in a murder case, in various cases of of assault.
- She straight away said she she looked shot at her profession and she said, daddy, that's not a murder case.
- Were they like murder cases or, or we've worked, I've worked a a couple of big high profile ones.
Examples
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BLOOMFIELD, MO - Yesterday, a preliminary hearing was conducted in the murder case against Charles Goforth.
Blog text (18) -
I, I represented someone on a murder case last year in April.
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I am on a murder case here.
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This is a murder case.
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Then he gave a short report on the status of the Central Park murder case.
Fiction book (1992) -
Crucial evidence which, by themselves, could establish guilt... ...beyond a reasonable doubt in a murder case.
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Sheriff's detectives have cracked a murder case that went cold for two decades.
Blog text (1) -
Prosecutors claimed to have a mountain of physical evidence and powerful eyewitness testimony against him in a murder case.
Academic text (2011) -
In Milwaukee, prosecutor McCann was recently trying what he calls a "clear-cut first-degree murder case."
Academic text (1995) -
In 1988, Finnell was trying a capital murder case in rural Meigs County, north of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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A problem that a court looks at and decides
How Official
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'case' (a legal matter) involving 'murder' (an unlawful killing), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to a legal matter about a homicide. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and the construction corresponds to common cross-linguistic patterns for naming legal cases, so it is fully transparent.
Etymology
Murder case comes from the idea of a case as a file or box holding evidence about a murder. Imagine detectives putting papers, photos and clues into a case while they work on the 'killing', so a murder case means the 'investigation' and 'trial' about that killing.