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Unlike the other three defendants, Wes had decided to take his case to trial.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

Her father saw it, and the defendant has testified as to his remarks.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

"There's a long-distance call for you," he continued in the tone of the judge performing the disagreeable duty of telling the defendant his right.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

the defendant's motive for committing murder  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

In the weeks preceding that date the defense attorneys frequently consulted the defendants.  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

What did the defendant do?  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

I find in favor of the defendants, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Lewis, and Mr. Smith.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Later she tells cops that she thought it could have been either the defendant or the other guy.  (source) Alice Sebold, Lucky, 1999

An officer left the War Department and delivered death warrants to the defendants Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell.†  (source) James L. Swanson, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, 2009

It is important to the concept of the play that the town is visible always, looming there, as much on trial as the individual defendant.  (source) Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind, 1955

Judges remand young defendants to his authority.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities.  (source) Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men, 1955

As I sat in court, though, and listened to the testimonies of the witnesses and the speeches of the prosecutors and the arguments of the defense attorneys and the statements of the defendants, I became a lot less sure of myself.†  (source) Haruki Murakami, After Dark, 2004