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For his courtroom outbursts, Davis found Thompson in contempt of court and added a little more than four and a half years to his sentence.
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Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
Eric Patrick, 31, pleaded guilty in an Orlando courtroom to attempting to entice a 15-year-old, whom Patrick and his husband, Richard Kowalczyk, met on Grindr, a dating app for gay men, according to Patrick’s plea agreement.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
About a dozen of Hall’s relatives — some tearing up — packed the courtroom.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
In an instant, our shaky courtroom sketch of Pearl the flighty young mother, Pearl the drunk, gets burned up and eclipsed by Pearl the mystic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
Eric Patrick, 31, pleaded guilty in an Orlando courtroom to attempting to entice a 15-year-old, whom Patrick and his husband, Richard Kowalczyk, met on Grindr, a dating app for gay men, according to Patrick’s plea agreement.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
About a dozen of Hall’s relatives — some tearing up — packed the courtroom.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
In an instant, our shaky courtroom sketch of Pearl the flighty young mother, Pearl the drunk, gets burned up and eclipsed by Pearl the mystic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Courtroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courtroom. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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courtroom
noun
court·room
ˈkō(ə)rt-ˌrüm 
ˈkȯ(ə)rt-,
-ˌru̇m
: a room in which a court of law is held
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