kangaroo court

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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Yegiazaryan was convicted of criminal fraud in absentia in Moscow in 2018 in the mall dispute and sentenced to seven years in a penal colony — a proceeding he characterizes as a kangaroo court.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

"Maybe he did do all those things he's been accused of, but it could also be a kangaroo court," she says.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

Put another way, even those who are hauled before a kangaroo court are sometimes guilty as charged.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

At this time they were holding "kangaroo" court in the New Orleans jail.

From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)