Allocution
Formal statement by a defendant who has been found guilty prior to being sentenced / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the common law legal procedure. For other uses, see Allocution (disambiguation).
An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to the court by the defendant who has been found guilty prior to being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some jurisdictions using common law.
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