bailiff

Example Sentences

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The department spokesperson said in an emailed statement last week that it had launched criminal and internal administrative investigations into Devoe, who worked as a bailiff at the Antelope Valley Courthouse in Lancaster.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2025

McKillen’s lawyers told the Irish Times that their client “vigorously denies any violence or any wrongdoing” against the bailiff and claimed the allegations against him were “false.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

"All the way through all of this, I keep having phone calls from the alleged bailiff wanting me to tell him that I had sent the money," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

Stines, elected sheriff in 2019, had previously served as a bailiff for Mullins in the southeastern Kentucky town of Whitesburg.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2024

“The judge is waiting,” a bailiff said, and opened the door for us all to enter.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter