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
"He finished his sentence for God's sake. It was an unfair sentence rendered by a kangaroo court," his mother says.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025
Put another way, even those who are hauled before a kangaroo court are sometimes guilty as charged.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
“Students of American history will now be able to read the last chapter and see that what was done to Oppenheimer in that kangaroo court proceeding was not the last word.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Monday morning "kangaroo court" was called ... that court which prisoners hold, mimicking the legal procedure to which they grow so accustomed during their lives.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
