Definition
The news media and the public at large, seen as being able to deliver a judgement on someone in the manner of a judge.
In Context
- "In the court of public opinion, the burden of proof clearly rests on the side of the Government to show that Microsoft has done anything illegal."
- "After ending Great Britain's 79-year wait for the Davis Cup, Andy Murray revealed that he discovered a ghost town when he visited the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton a couple of months ago, and his verbal volley has pushed the Lawn Tennis Association into a vulnerable position in the court of public opinion."
- "I had been acquitted in a court of law, but sentenced to life by the court of public opinion as, if not a killer, then at least a slut, or a nutcase, or a tabloid celebrity."
Also Said As
- court of world opinion