criminal suit
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- noun
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəl suːt/
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demanda penal
- Today, in a special edition of TALKBACK LIVE, we present two key players from his criminal suit: a prosecutor and a defense attorney.
So if they settle the plaintiff in a civil suit and the extended victim in in a criminal suit says, well, now we're partners in this.
- So if they settle the plaintiff in a civil suit and the extended victim in in a criminal suit says, well, now we're partners in this.
Examples
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The increasing availability of civil and criminal suits against individual government officials for human rights violations, from Ferdinand Marcos to Auguste Pinochet, has underlined the reality of governments as aggregations of individual officials.
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I don't know what else we can do now until your criminal suit is over.
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So if they settle the plaintiff in a civil suit and the extended victim in in a criminal suit says, well, now we're partners in this.
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If the government is going in under the civil suits and telling the courts the telecoms were, in essence, acting without mens rea, it's going to be hard for the government to come in a criminal suit and take a different position.
Blog text (17) -
In a criminal suit, you have to present to the jury that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Civil suits are different from criminal suits because criminal suits require proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and civil suits only require a preponderance of evidence.
Synonyms
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A problem that a court looks at and decides
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A case in which the government takes someone to court to decide if they are guilty of a crime
How Serious
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a legal case concerning criminal law' can be largely inferred from 'criminal' (relating to crime) + 'suit' (a legal action), so a learner who knows both words will get the general idea. However, because English more commonly uses terms like 'criminal case' or 'criminal charge' and 'suit' often implies civil litigation, the phrase may cause terminological or collocational confusion for B1 learners and is not fully predictable.
Etymology
Criminal suit comes from the image of people going after someone who broke the law: criminal is the law‑breaker and suit was an old word for a court action or 'following' a complaint. So, criminal suit today means 'a legal case brought against someone for a crime'.