trial court

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Even though Kuhlman was being chosen for a trial court in Kansas, President Trump phoned him directly to deliver the news.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The trial court, he argued, “grasped and conducted just two of Batson’s three steps.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

For 16 years, she fought a legal battle to bring her perpetrators to justice before a trial court acquitted them in December.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

In February 2024, a trial court issued a decision that reframed the debate over the constitutionality of gubernatorial power transfers.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

The trial court sentenced Mrs. Colbey to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and a short while later she found herself shackled in a prison van heading to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson