judge and jury

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“Faces of Death” is so steeped in the computer monitor’s point of view that, ultimately, the internet isn’t merely the defendant on trial — it’s also the judge and jury.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

If the plate umpire goes, with it goes one of baseball’s most entertaining/maddening presences–a puff-chested judge and jury, a baked-in villain, an essential part of the game’s pacing and flow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Sometimes it's hard not to wonder if he's trying to alienate the judge and jury that hold his client's fate in their hands.

From Salon • May 2, 2024

In this instance, the judge and jury are his fellow MPs, exploring a narrow question in relation to all those partygate revelations.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2023

But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson