Officials say foul play is not suspected. Alexander's death was the fifth inmate death since the beginning of 2014. Click here to read a statement released Wednesday by Sheriff Ian Parkinson about the deaths and their resulting investigations.
Adjudication â The process for determining if allegations brought forth in the juvenile court petition are true. An adjudicatory hearing is held to determine the facts of the case and an appropriate course of action.
Adjudicate is one of several terms that give testimony to the influence of jus, the Latin word for law, on our legal language. Adjudicate is from the Latin verb adjudicare, from judicare, meaning to judge, which, in turn, traces to the Latin noun judex, meaning judge.. English has other judex words, such as judgment, judicial, judiciary, and prejudice. If we admit further evidence, we discover that the root of judex is jus, the word for law..