MLB World Series
ワールドシリーズ第4戦，ドジャースがフリーマンの2ランで先制して，
4タテかと思われましたが，ヤンキース打線が復活，グランドスラムで逆転し，
ブルペンデーだったドジャース投手陣を打ち込み，4-11で大勝しました。
NPB日本シリーズ
日本シリーズ第4戦，横浜ベイスターズが5-0で勝利して，2勝2敗。
本日の将棋棋戦
叡王戦九段予選死のグループ，午前中の対局で渡辺明九段に勝利した
広瀬章人九段相手に，羽生善治九段が勝ちました。
棋王戦挑戦者決定トーナメント準々決勝，澤田真吾七段が本田奎六段に勝ち，
増田康宏八段の待つ準決勝へ。
清麗戦予選，今井絢女流初段vs小髙佐季子女流初段戦，
後手番の小髙女流初段がゴキゲン中飛車，
先手番の今井女流初段が勝利して，3回戦は松下舞琳女流初段との対局。
負けた小髙女流初段は再挑戦トーナメントへ回り，森本理子女流2級との対局。
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PROSECUTORS WON'T APPEAL AFTER HAKAMADA ACQUITTED IN RETRIAL
prosecutor noun [C]
uk /ˈprɒs.ɪ.kjuː.tər/ us /ˈprɑː.sə.kjuː.t̬ɚ/
C2 a legal official who accuses someone of committing a crime, especially in a law court
appeal verb
uk /əˈpiːl/ us /əˈpiːl/
appeal verb (LEGAL)
[I] to request a higher court of law to consider again a decision made by a lower court, especially in order to reduce or prevent a punishment:
The teenager has been given leave (= allowed) by the High Court to appeal against her two-year sentence.
They're appealing to the court to reduce the sentence to a fine.
hand something down phrasal verb with hand verb [T]
(also hand something on)
(DECISION) to announce an official decision, especially in a court of law:
hand down a verdict He plans to appeal the verdict handed down by a jury yesterday.
hand down an indictment A federal grand jury handed down an indictment intended to strip him of his US citizenship.
exonerate verb [T] formal
uk /ɪɡˈzɒn.ə.reɪt/ us /ɪɡˈzɑː.nɚ.eɪt/
to show or state that someone or something is not guilty of something:
exonerate someone from something The report exonerated the crew from all responsibility for the collision.
acquit verb
uk /əˈkwɪt/ us /əˈkwɪt/ -tt-
[T often passive] to decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime:
acquit someone of something She was acquitted of all the charges against her.
acquit someone on something Five months ago he was acquitted on a shoplifting charge.
convict verb [T usually passive]
uk /kənˈvɪkt/ us /kənˈvɪkt/
C2 to decide officially in a law court that someone is guilty of a crime:
be convicted of He has twice been convicted of robbery/arson.
fabricate verb [T]
uk /ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪt/ us /ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪt/
to invent a story or create a piece of false evidence in order to deceive someone:
It turned out that all the qualifications in his application had been fabricated.
dispute verb [I or T]
uk /dɪˈspjuːt/ us /dɪˈspjuːt/
to disagree with or express doubts about something:
Health insurers dispute the doctors' statement that they don't pay enough to make up for the cost of the vaccine.
Many in the television industry dispute research findings suggesting negative long-term effects of television violence.
limbo noun
uk /ˈlɪm.bəʊ/ us /ˈlɪm.boʊ/
limbo noun (UNCERTAINTY)
[C or U] an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement:
Until we have official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
We felt that we were left in limbo wondering what was happening.
The prison camp was a kind of juridical limbo where people could be held indefinitely without trial.
(from Cambridge Dictionary)
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