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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retrial
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
murder
▪ Erik, 25, and Lyle, 28, are in the prosecution rebuttal phase of their murder retrial.
■ VERB
order
▪ The civil division of the Court of Appeal enjoys much wider powers to order a retrial than the criminal division.
▪ Held, allowing the appeal, but ordering a retrial.
▪ If the matter can not be resolved by the Court of Appeal, it has power to order a retrial.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ District Attorney McKittrick has asked the judge for a retrial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the retrial, there is no agreement; the brothers were defended at taxpayer expense.
▪ He had been tried jointly with another businessman, Jeffrey Smith, who was eventually cleared at a retrial.
▪ I am sorry about what happened ... He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial.
▪ One jury will decide the retrial.
▪ The retrial is in the rebuttal phase.
▪ The 27-year attorney has said that the second Menendez retrial may be her last.
▪ The civil division of the Court of Appeal enjoys much wider powers to order a retrial than the criminal division.
▪ The players will face a retrial on charges of serious assault in October.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrial

Retrial \Re*tri"al\, n. A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
retrial

1813, from re- + trial (n.).

Wiktionary
retrial

n. (label en legal) A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper or unfair

WordNet
retrial

n. a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors

Usage examples of "retrial".

Claudius Nero was thinking along the same lines became apparent when he announced that he would schedule the retrial for early summer, which probably meant a new governor in Asia Province-and a new governor in Cilicia.

Her handler in the witness protection program would be the first to say, given the pending retrial of Ben DeCarlo, that she had foolishly endangered her life.

The Revisionists, who fought for retrial, saw France as the fount of liberty, the country of light, the teacher of reason, the codifier of law, and to them the knowledge that she could have perpetrated a wrong and connived at a miscarriage of justice was insufferable.

August 8, 1899, the retrial of Dreyfus by a new court-martial was scheduled to open in the garrison town of Rennes, a Catholic and aristocratic corner of traditionally Counter-Revolutionary Brittany.

At the very hour that the jurymen were being discharged and steps taken for a retrial, we had the murderer locked in my room in a cheap lodging-house off Chestnut Street.

There are various categories among the people on hold: retrial, pending, bail, temporary release, suspended sentence, appeal, and so forth.

It was his lengthy retrial, alongside his brother Euripides, which had caused the evidence against them all to be reviewed.

Since every official was held completely responsible for the actions of his subordinates, these data were carefully checked, and if there was any doubt, a retrial was ordered.

There ensued a period of awkward movements, trials and retrials, whispers of encouragement and mumbles of frustration, and finally he confessed defeat.

There's transfers and objections and extraditions and adjournments an' retrials and appeals.