How to Use county court in a Sentence

county court

noun
  • Those charges are set for trial in county court later this year, records show.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Not all counties have every type of county court.
    — Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Many of those charged in county court ended up with probation and fines.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 17 May 2022
  • The county court is the county judge sitting in a judicial role.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Then the whole county court system relies on it to file briefs, motions, or orders.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The county court docket is sealed, so documents from that court are not available.
    — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Johnson had been convicted in a county court and sentenced to death.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • No hearing dates have yet been scheduled for his case, according to online county court records.
    — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Friday’s lawsuit is their first in county court and the first to name Steele as a defendant.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
  • As of Thursday morning, the new case had not yet appeared on the county court docket.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The transparency in the county court stands in stark contrast to federal court.
    — Jozsef Papp The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 31 Aug. 2023
  • He has since been released on bond, and is due to appear in court on March 10, per the county court.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Judges in Colorado are appointed to the bench in state and county courts, rather than elected.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
  • With this change, the chief judge would have to have at least three years of experience as a judge hearing cases in the county court.
    — Mike Hendricks, kansascity, 7 May 2018
  • In other words, the homebuilder had 90 days to sue in the same county court where the estate case was pending.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Huff also had some of the lowest numbers of trials compared with other county courts-at-law judges.
    — Molly Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Starting June 1, the county courts can hold bench trials, or those without a jury.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2020
  • He was released on Thursday, according to county court records.
    — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Since the decisions are based on facts, the zoning board's decisions can be appealed to county courts.
    — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Both remain in custody and are scheduled to be arraigned in county court Wednesday.
    — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But before the reforms, voters could file the petition themselves with a county court.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Lawyers for the county election board responded about two weeks later, saying that the records are held by the county court clerk.
    — Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Lawyers for the county election board responded about two weeks later, saying that the records are held by the county court clerk.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Torres briefly served on a county court-at-law bench and has more than 20 years of legal experience.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The providers instead also sued, among others, every state trial court judge and county court clerk in Texas.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Prosecutors chose to put the case before a grand jury to charge it, an atypical move for county court.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • That prosecutor who tried the case is now himself a county court judge in Miami.
    — Woody Clermont, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • The Appeals court decision reversed the ruling and kicked the case back to county court for a new trial date.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • The county court clerk’s office said in an email that eight Black people were among the 70 in the initial jury pool.
    — Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In the other 244 counties, a guardianship would usually be filed in a county court.
    — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020

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