In France, a cour d'assises, or Court of Assizes or Assize Court, is a criminal trial court with original and appellate limited jurisdiction to hear cases...

A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them...

potentially victims. The trial took place in May–July 2004 before the Cour d'assises, a criminal trial court, of the commune Pas-de-Calais (Saint-Omer) where...

confession one month later. Louis was sentenced to life in prison by the cour d'assises of Yonne in 2004. The sentence, which was upheld on appeal in 2006,...

the Marquis de Laborde forced to resign. When on 15 April 1831 the Cour d'assises acquitted several young Republicans (Godefroy Cavaignac, Joseph Guinard...

The serial murders in Essonne were a series of four murders that occurred from November 2011 to April 2012 in an area of ten square kilometers in the north-east...

police storm into their apartment and arrest Lisa for murder. Then a cour d'assises sentences her to 20 years in prison. Three years later, Julien continues...

§ défendeur, § inculpé, § intimé, § prévenu. acquittement a decision by a § cour d'assises of not guilty against a defendant. See § relaxe. acte de barbarie inhumane...

tribunal correctionnel and the cour d’assises hear criminal cases, depending on their seriousness. The cour d’assises is a branch of the Court of Appeal...

in 2015. In 2019, Bailey was convicted of murder in absentia by the Cour d'Assises in Paris, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was tried in absentia...