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Burnett -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 15674
Housing Units (2000): 12582
Land area (2000): 821.520773 sq. miles (2127.728944 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 58.859882 sq. miles (152.446387 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 880.380655 sq. miles (2280.175331 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.866346 N, 92.356188 W
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Burnett (surname)

Burnett is an English surname. It is derived from a nickname from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning "brown", "dark brown". Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, a high quality wool cloth originally dyed to a dark brown colour.

Usage examples of "burnett".

The audiocassette in his breast-pocket radio records the unanswered query of Burnett, the other guard on duty, who was calling from the perimeter security post about the camera failure.

Kent Burnett, bearing over his arm a coat newly pressed in the Delmonico restaurant, dodged in at the back door of the saloon, threw the coat down upon the tousled bed, and pushed back his hat with a gesture of relief at an onerous duty well performed.

Burnett received her education in the public schools and college of this place, where her parents have resided for many years.

Though Burnett refused to sever, or separate, the trials, Ford continued to raise additional issues to support that contention.

None of the defendants waived their rights to a speedy trial, so Burnett announced that they would be tried early the next year.

Ford and Wadley asked Burnett to seal all subsequent filings in the case.

Sharing an armrest with him was another Bay Area resident, Tom Burnett, a healthcare executive.

Reminding Burnett of the new state law that allowed inmates to seek retesting of evidence that might exonerate them, Stidham asked for a hearing on his motion.

When Judge Burnett welcomed the potential jurors to his court, he began by asking if any of them would hesitate, due to moral or religious scruples, to impose the death penalty.

Burnett explained that he was taking the further unusual step of having prospective jurors questioned privately in his chambers, rather than in open court.

He had barely recited his credentials in order to be qualified by Judge Burnett as an expert witness when the prosecutors again objected.

Burnett told him that he could inform Jessie that anything he told the prosecutors would not be used against him in court.

Burnett himself had ignored repeated requests in his own court from Christopher Morgan.

When Prosecutor Davis objected to having the evidence retested, Stidham wrote to Burnett again.

But Burnett ruled that testimony about other suspects would not be allowed.