not warranted
Example Sentences
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If no case is filed, state prosecutors must release a report detailing the evidence and the legal reasoning for why charges were not warranted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
"I don’t understand this – it doesn’t make any sense - it's not warranted and not needed," Mr Nicholl said.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024
But prosecutors said in the filing that sending him to prison for the rest of his life was not warranted, despite the severity of his crime, because of his relative youth.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024
In announcing a grand jury’s findings in Taylor’s death, Cameron said jurors “agreed” that homicide charges were not warranted against the officers, because they were fired upon.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Was any such evidence offered in the argument at the Bar of the House of Lords, of persons who had suffered either a kind or a degree of punishment not warranted by law?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
