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
He described the committee as a "kangaroo court" whose purpose "has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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
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 James J. (James John) Davis
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