Chief justice
Chief justice noun - The judge who presides over a supreme court.
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Judge and chief justice are semantically related in arbitrator topic. In some cases you can use "Judge" instead a noun phrase "Chief justice".
Judge
Judge noun - A public official having authority to decide questions of law.
Usage example: the judge gave the defendant a suspended sentence
Chief justice and judge are semantically related in arbitrator topic. You can use "Chief justice" instead a noun "Judge".
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The woman who played the judge was named Rose Bird, who formerly was Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Source: The Judge - Judge Dredd: a number of these are chained together, with similar shots and dialogue being used to contrast Dredd's imprisonment and Chief Justice Fargo's "retirement".
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Dredd exclaims this when former Chief Justice Fargo is mortally wounded, and Judge Griffin lets one out just before the ABC robot rips his limbs off.
Source: Film / Judge Dredd
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