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perp walk
noun
a purposeful display of a charged criminal, especially when being transported from jail to court US, 1994- Throughout the country, many prosecutors also put defendants through what is called in the trade a “perp walk.” The prosecutor, again before trial, alerts television stations when to bring in their cameras to get some “eyewitness shots” of the alleged malefactors. — Washington Post, p. A23, 29 November 1986
- [W]hat they call a perp walk, they walk the defendant in front of the cameras to assure the public that the perpetrator has been caught. — Terry Moran, Court TV, 20 May 1994
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