Definition of "sub judice" []

• Under judicial deliberation; before a judge or court of law. (adverb)

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• "He behaved as if there were never going to be a trial; as if awkward details like Land-Rovers, lopping shears, and confirmed matching DNA tests tying the shears to the Bracken colt were never going to surface, once the sub judice silence ended."
• "'None of the Land-Rover evidence will get into the papers because the sub judice rule kicked in the minute they remanded him."
• "Under British sub judice law, no evidence might be publicly discussed between the remand and the trial."