How to Use inadmissible in a Sentence

inadmissible

adjective
  • The evidence was inadmissible in court.
  • The charges against Kraft were dropped after an appeals court ruled the video inadmissible.
    Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
  • This is to ensure that the applicant is not inadmissible to the U.S. on public health grounds.
    Rima Himelstein, Md, Ashu Singh, Md, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But in court, the judge ruled that the figure was inadmissible as evidence.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2018
  • The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible.
    Aijaz Rahi and Ashok Sharma, al, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Most out-of-court statements (e.g., a news story about an event) are inadmissible as hearsay.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • But the intermingling of their work, defense lawyers say, means that the statements the suspects gave the FBI should be ruled inadmissible.
    Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • The judges also ruled one of his in-custody statements should have been inadmissible.
    Dallas News, 4 May 2022
  • All of them were recorded, but no one had ever bothered to look at the tapes because polygraphs are inadmissible in court.
    CBS News, 12 July 2017
  • The tip was deemed inadmissible at the time, according to Forbes' current lawyer, Imran Syed.
    Anna Sturla, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Buzbee wants that, but Hardin said in court Monday that evidence from the other women would be inadmissible in the case at trial.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • Matthews ruled that all those elements are inadmissible at trial, which means the jury will not hear them.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2022
  • And a judge could rule that testimony provided by a deputy on the list is inadmissible.
    USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Six were deemed inadmissible by Cahill, who wrote in a court filing that the incidents weren't similar enough to the Floyd incident.
    Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Lawyers for all five men argue even the statements to the FBI are tainted by torture, the product of a program designed to deprive them of free will, and are inadmissible at trial.
    Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 20 Jan. 2018
  • That number includes a 183% increase in the number of inadmissible migrants trying to get through U.S. land ports since March.
    Byquinn Owen, ABC News, 20 May 2022
  • Some of Bloom’s remarks during the press conference about Green might concern points that would be deemed inadmissible in a trial.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 July 2017
  • If the defense attorney knows that a witness is a deputy on the Brady list, then the attorney can argue to a judge that the deputy’s testimony should made inadmissible in court.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The court ordered a new trial and the nonsense evidence used by the prosecution in the first trial was deemed inadmissible.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Woman's Day, 12 May 2017
  • And a defense attorney to run to court, to ask for a ruling on inadmissible evidence.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But Zaleski thinks some of the evidence — the cord and the sheets — will ultimately be inadmissible.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Regardless, the mistake meant that Alonso was now deemed inadmissible, said Ruiz, the Customs spokesman.
    Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The text was excluded at trial as inadmissible hearsay in part because of its lack of clarity.
    Bslovic, oregonlive, 22 June 2023
  • The SIM card from the phone in question had not been sent for a forensic test, and therefore was deemed inadmissible as evidence, undermining the case of the prosecution.
    Lois McLatchie, National Review, 27 June 2021
  • The confession got some details wrong and was deemed inadmissible at his trial amid concerns that Mr. Lorenz’s right to counsel may not have been properly waived.
    New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • If the draft proposal moves forward, the study, which has been the basis for public-health regulations for more than two decades, could become inadmissible.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Roberts wrote that such evidence is inadmissible and would confuse or distract the jury.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 8 July 2021
  • The brothers gave statements to police but they were ruled inadmissible in court because investigators had failed to read them their rights.
    Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • If police willfully do not follow the parameters of the law, any statement made by the minor in question would be inadmissible in court.
    Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Oregon Supreme Court ruled a three-hour police interview with him after his arrest was inadmissible.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017

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