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  • noun Plural form of readback.

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Examples

  • Certainly, in a complicated white collar case like this, you would expect requests for readbacks, although certainly the length of the deliberations here is, I think, about what you might expect.

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2006 2006

  • That said, there is still some betting that this jury came back very quickly without any questions of substance to the judge, without any readbacks, without any clarifications.

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2006 2006

  • There are even some judges who don't allow readbacks of testimony or of explanations of any legal instructions.

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2006 2006

  • And I just think we need to know what those questions are and what the readbacks were.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • Yesterday, they were only at it for two days (SIC), so clearly, they had a lot of work to do today with these readbacks, but haven ` t made the decision as of yet, and they ` re going home to spend time with their families over the weekend.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • We don ` t know if -- how many readbacks there were.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • Michael Jackson, obviously, has not been present for any of these readbacks.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • GRACE: You know, that ` s incredible to me, Ted Rowlands -- we were discussing it here on the set with a prosecutor and a defense attorney -- that they would have readbacks, the jury would be brought in with no Michael Jackson sitting there, making eye contact with them.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • Now, when they went home at 2: 30 this afternoon, basically, what we heard is they had asked no questions, no requests for readbacks, nothing.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • So it certainly makes sense that they would want to have some readbacks.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

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