shotgunned

Often a defendant is 'shotgunned' with multiple charges in many jurisdictions with the expectation (or hope) that they will plead guilty to at least one, - and the rest nolle prossed (or dropped) and the DA or States 'Attorney will be spared from going to trial.

City 2009

In the process, you are almost skewered with a wooden stake by a mob with blazing torches, tried for murder, nearly crunched by a seven-foot undead guy, almost shotgunned into undead pieces, come inches from having your tail cut off and seconds from being fried by the sun, and kidnapped twice.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » My new Authonomy addiction 2009

I would recommend breaking into a new chapter right after she gets shotgunned.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009

My mother was away for long stints at the Northville State Psychiatric Hospital, my dad, a chemical engineer at Chrysler, was paralyzed in a shallow-water diving accident, and my best friend from junior high was later shotgunned to death by a biker gang in an L.A. drug deal gone bad.

Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

My mother was away for long stints at the Northville State Psychiatric Hospital, my dad, a chemical engineer at Chrysler, was paralyzed in a shallow-water diving accident, and my best friend from junior high was later shotgunned to death by a biker gang in an L.A. drug deal gone bad.

Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

My mother was away for long stints at the Northville State Psychiatric Hospital, my dad, a chemical engineer at Chrysler, was paralyzed in a shallow-water diving accident, and my best friend from junior high was later shotgunned to death by a biker gang in an L.A. drug deal gone bad.

Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

He got halfway and dropped like a shotgunned mallard onto the mat.

Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010

It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922.

Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922.

Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

The men who were supposed to be slaughtered in their sleep were now dropping Indians on the field like shotgunned mallards.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010