How to Use federal case in a Sentence

federal case

noun
  • The McMichaels and Bryan have all pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
    Russ Bynum, ajc, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The status of the federal case is unclear; no charges have been filed.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Chaudry faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each count in the federal case.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The new federal case is only the latest gun charge for Lil Zay.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The federal case is separate from the state charges for Floyd's death.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The judge in the other federal case, Tanya Chutkan, received death threats.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Fox and Croft are among six defendants charged in the federal case.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Lane and Kueng are both serving 2 1/2-year prison sentences in the federal case.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
  • He was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison in the state case and is facing an even stiffer sentence in the federal case.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • With the federal case against Crusius over, attention turns to the state charges.
    Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
  • The pardon only applied to the federal case and does not preclude the state charges.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Online court records do not list attorneys for the men in the federal case.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2022
  • By then, the brothers had pleaded guilty in their federal case.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Goines has also pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
    Andrea Salcedo, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Erie, based in the Pennsylvania city of the same name, had sought a trial by jury in the federal case.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Sayfullo Saipov could face the death penalty in the federal case.
    Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Cohen entered a guilty plea to tax evasion in 2018 in the federal case, and is now the key witness against Trump in the New York case.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That brings us to the federal case against Julian Omidi.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Both McMichaels received life prison sentences in the federal case, while Bryan was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
    Russ Bynum, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • What happens to the federal cases if Trump wins the election?
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Bi Chao Chen, who appears in a photo with a defendant in the federal case, has had his own run-ins with the law.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In the federal case, Trump pardoned Bannon in the closing days of his White House term, ending that case against him.
    Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The settlement with the states doesn’t cover the federal case, which Walmart has sought to have dismissed.
    Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Special counsel Jack Smith wants both federal case trials to start in the first half 2024.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Like the state trial, the federal case will be tried in Glynn County, where the killing occurred just outside the port city of Brunswick.
    Russ Bynum, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Like in the state trial of Chauvin, video is expected to play a major role in the federal case.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And Smith’s team is seeking a Jan. 2 trial date in the federal case over Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The men are charged in the federal case with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping.
    NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But the federal case fell apart after a judge determined that he hadn’t been informed of his Miranda rights before talking to an investigator.
    Sean Emery, Orange County Register, 31 July 2024
  • In July, a judge dismissed a federal case in Florida charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents and obstructing investigators.
    Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024

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