All 50 Uses of
defendant
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table—the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.†
Chpt 1
- It was a place of gray-hued and bleak simplicity—a cramped gallery, a bench for the judge, a witness stand, a plywood platform for the jurors, and scuffed tables for the defendant and his prosecutor.†
Chpt 1
- Your inventory of items aboard the defendant's boat?†
Chpt 3
- The defendant had no spare battery aboard his boat?†
Chpt 3
- These D-6s on the defendant's boat.†
Chpt 3
- "So the D-6 in use on the deceased's boat could have— hypothetically, since it was identical—made a perfect spare for the defendant's batteries?"†
Chpt 3
- But, as you say, the defendant had no spare on board.†
Chpt 3
- And with a slowness that embarrassed him—because as a young man he had been lithe and an athlete, had always moved fluidly across the floorboards of courtrooms, had always felt admired for his physical appearance— he made his way back to his seat at the defendant's table, where Kabuo Miyamoto sat watching him.†
Chpt 3
- While Horace did so Nels returned to the defendant's table and sipped from a glass of water.†
Chpt 6
- He went to the defendant's table and leafed through his own copy.†
Chpt 6
- During the morning recess the accused man's wife had come alone to the row of seats behind the defendant's table and asked permission to speak with her husband.†
Chpt 7
- Yes, she'd known the defendant, Kabuo Miyamoto, for a good long time, she figured.†
Chpt 9
- It was more than twenty years since his family came to pick—the defendant, his two brothers, his two sisters, his mother and father—she remembered them well enough.†
Chpt 9
- Mrs. Heine has told us that her deceased husband, in joint conspiracy with the defendant's deceased father, entered into an agreement which, shall we say, was predicated on a rather liberal, albeit mutually satisfying, interpretation of these laws.†
Chpt 9
- At any rate, the witness's husband and the defendant's father entered into a so-called 'lease' agreement that concealed an actual purchase.†
Chpt 9
- the defendant's motive for committing murder
Chpt 9 *defendant = the person accused of a crime in court
- That furthermore such information is vital to the state's case and that a clear portrait of the agreement between the defendant and the witness will illuminate the defendant's motive for committing murder.†
Chpt 9
- "And they—the defendant's family, the Miyamotos, that is—had no children in 1934 who were twenty years of age, Mrs. Heine?†
Chpt 9
- Alvin Hooks turned to look at the defendant as though he was uncertain who she meant.†
Chpt 9
- "The defendant?" he asked.†
Chpt 9
- The defendant.†
Chpt 9
- The defendant?†
Chpt 10
- What did the defendant indicate was the nature of his business with you?†
Chpt 10
- Did you see the defendant thereafter?†
Chpt 10
- Did you ever have a conversation with your son about the defendant in this regard?†
Chpt 10
- And you told him then the defendant had come to your —door?†
Chpt 10
- So were they, the defendant and your son, on friendly or unfriendly terms from 1945 on?†
Chpt 10
- "The defendant wasn't no friend of my son's.†
Chpt 10
- When you told him the defendant had given you dirty looks your son reacted exactly how, Mrs. Heine?†
Chpt 10
- "Do you think that the term 'family feud' could be accurately applied to the relationship between your family and that of the defendant?†
Chpt 10
- No. I hear no ting about it until that man"—he aimed his nose at the defendant—"come round about and tell me."†
Chpt 10
- Do you mean the defendant there—Kabuo Miyamoto?†
Chpt 10
- The defendant showed up at your farm in the summer of 1945 and accused Etta Heine of robbing him?†
Chpt 10
- "And the house the defendant's family had lived in, Mr. Jurgensen?"†
Chpt 10
- Did the defendant say anything else to you during his visit in the summer of 1945?†
Chpt 10
- "The defendant?" asked Alvin Hooks.†
Chpt 10
- The defendant had seen the sign on the barn and wanted to buy Ole's farm.†
Chpt 10
- He could not change how his face arranged itself while he sat with his hands on the defendant's table with his back to his fellow islanders.†
Chpt 11
- "This one here, marked with an A, came from the defendant's boat.†
Chpt 17
- Peculiar thing is, it does match up with the lines I found on board the defendant's boat.†
Chpt 17
- "This line looks like the ones on the defendant's boat?"†
Chpt 17
- "And the defendant's boat—do I understand this right?†
Chpt 17
- "If the defendant had tied up to Carl Heine's boat would these two cleats in question line up?"†
Chpt 17
- What led you to investigate the defendant in the first place?†
Chpt 17
- The reporters found their places, the defendant was brought in, Eleanor Dokes took her seat at the stenograph.†
Chpt 19
- Alvin Hooks crossed in front of the jurors and approached the defendant's table.†
Chpt 19
- "The defendant's name here is Kabuo Miyamoto.†
Chpt 19
- "And the blood on the fishing gaff that Sheriff Moran brought you, the one he found while searching the defendant's boat—the one you held in your hands a moment ago—was B positive, doctor?"†
Chpt 19
- "So the blood on the gaff was not the defendant's?"†
Chpt 19
- He'd also, he said, been at Livorno and Luciana and seen the 442nd—the Nisei regiment to which the defendant had been attached—in action along the Gothic Line.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(defendant) a person or institution legally accused or sued in court