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  • Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities.   (source)
    defendant = a person legally accused in court
  • She said, "And the defendant was represented by Lamar Thisdale."†   (source)
    defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court
  • Not a single innocent defendant in so many cases?   (source)
    defendant = someone legally accused in court
  • Ten months later, the trials of Class B and C defendants—those accused of ordering or carrying out abuse or atrocities—were ended.†   (source)
  • Tom Robinson, the wrongly accused black defendant, is found guilty.†   (source)
  • Like a defendant about to hear the verdict.†   (source)
  • The 2 defendants you see before you will be shown to be participants in that act and are being charged with felony murder.†   (source)
  • He begins by listing off my crimes, then concludes, "In light of the defendant's past felonies and, in particular, his offenses against the glorious nation of the Republic, the high court of California recommends the following verdict.†   (source)
  • The defendants, he said, were young, foolish, clean-cut, and honest.†   (source)
  • I find in favor of the defendants, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Lewis, and Mr. Smith.†   (source)
  • I am a sworn defendant of the Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • When court convened at the next term the court and sheriff were bolstered by sixty militiamen, but by then the defendant was not available for trial.†   (source)
  • An officer left the War Department and delivered death warrants to the defendants Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell.†   (source)
  • He sued ten defendants in all, and several of the Hopkins employees involved had never heard of Cofield or Henrietta Lacks before their subpoenas arrived.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor, the defendant is disrespectful," said the prosecutor.†   (source)
  • As an appellate court judge he had never had to look a defendant in the eye; he'd just reviewed the law in a detached way.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The libel laws in Great Britain are far more unfavorable to a defendant than those in the United States.†   (source)
  • Mandela and the other defendants in the treason trial were kept in jail for five months during the state of emergency.†   (source)
  • While you were supposed to get a retrial at your eighteenth birthday, in the last year or so, pretty much every juvenile defendant had been found guilty.†   (source)
  • Deepak and Thomas Stone looked like defendants whose alibi had just been shot down by a surprise witness.†   (source)
  • We share the defendants' table, the public defender who stands with us.†   (source)
  • Some defendants spend months waiting for trial.†   (source)
  • Defendant left town shortly after the trial.†   (source)
  • The lawsuit named Paul, the hospital, and the anesthesiologist as defendants.†   (source)
  • The defendant was Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney.†   (source)
  • Judges remand young defendants to his authority.†   (source)
  • However, an appeals court overturned the sentence in 2004, and the defendant was transferred from prison to a closed psychiatric ward.†   (source)
  • His love for Tereza was beautiful, but it was also tiring: he had constantly had to hide things from her, sham, dissemble, make amends, buck her up, calm her down, give her evidence of his feelings, play the defendant to her jealousy, her suffering, and her dreams, feel guilty, make excuses and apologies.†   (source)
  • About 90 percent of criminal defendants plead guilty.†   (source)
  • In both cases it seemed the cops were as much on trial as any possible defendants.†   (source)
  • What was the defendant wearing?†   (source)
  • Five weeks ago, my client was abducted, assaulted, and on the verge of consumption by the defendants.†   (source)
  • But the law demands that the defendant's side be represented on the record.†   (source)
  • Primary investigator and defendant.†   (source)
  • They had rebelled against their masters, murdered the captain and crew practically while they slept, seized the ship, and forced the defendants, free whitemen, into bondage.†   (source)
  • The judge to the right of the court president reprimanded the defendants.†   (source)
  • The magistrate questioned both Meletus and Socrates, then gave both the accuser and defendant an opportunity to question each other.†   (source)
  • Representing the defendant, Judge.†   (source)
  • I imagine," Fiedler continued, indicating with his head the motionless figure of Mundt in the front row, "that it is not disputed by the defendant that he was in Copenhagen on June twenty-first, nominally engaged on secret work on behalf of the Abteilung."†   (source)
  • For the sake of its historical and sociological significance it has to be pointed out that of all of Hoss's co-defendants at the postwar trials in Poland and Germany—those satraps and second-string butchers who made up the SS ranks at Auschwitz and other camps—only a handful had a military background.†   (source)
  • Two great elements of drama were missing: the actual cause for which the President was being tried was not fundamental to the welfare of the nation; and the defendant himself was at all times absent.†   (source)
  • At 9:00 a.m. sharp, Simeon was led in, and a guiltier defendant had never been seen.†   (source)
    defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court
  • The plaintiff, a man named Cleon Hubbard, filed a lawsuit against the defendant.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and heard the voice of the court clerk, Jean Gillespie, read the verdict: "As to each count of the indictment, we the jury find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity."†   (source)
  • On occasion it could set the stage for a David and Goliath struggle as a solitary lawyer and his crippled client faced a throng of corporate suits, or a beaten-down defendant faced the power of the State.†   (source)
  • 'Peter Houghton,' he began, turning to the defendant.†   (source)
  • Black defendant and white victim pairings increased the likelihood of a death sentence even more.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sawicki, do you know the defendant sitting at this table?†   (source)
  • The land on which the defendant's childhood home sat?†   (source)
  • A good lawyer can challenge the evidence, maybe even turn it around to the defendant's advantage.†   (source)
  • On the charge of first-degree felony murder, the jury finds the defendant ...guilty.†   (source)
  • "The defendant's motion to change venue is granted," the judge ruled.†   (source)
  • Alvin Hooks turned to look at the defendant as though he was uncertain who she meant.†   (source)
  • The JUDGE has read the verdicts and hands them to the CLERK as GUARDS stand behind the DEFENDANTS.†   (source)
  • The first defendant was called, and he shuffled past the bar with his eyes averted.†   (source)
  • The defendant glanced down, weighing impropriety against honesty.†   (source)
  • We had discovered that both the victim and one of his co-defendants had died.†   (source)
  • And he had indicated as much to the defendant?†   (source)
  • She moves with grace to the witness stand, avoiding looking at either the jury or the defendants.†   (source)
  • The defendant, a fifty-four-year-old woman sporting a bad perm and an even worse pantsuit, nodded.†   (source)
  • He reported to you that he had indicated to the defendant a willingness to think matters over?†   (source)
  • The defendant had no spare battery aboard his boat?†   (source)
  • One handgun with the defendant, one on the floor, and two sawed-off shotguns in a knapsack.†   (source)
  • If the defendant had tied up to Carl Heine's boat would these two cleats in question line up?†   (source)
  • Detective,' Diana said, 'when you cornered the defendant in the locker room, what was he holding?†   (source)
  • 'That's a fifty-five-dollar tropical fish, Judge,' the defendant interjected.†   (source)
  • The defendant here appeared on your doorstep on Thursday, September 9?†   (source)
  • He reported to you a concern about how his mother might react if he sold to the defendant?†   (source)
  • She looked like a poorly aged carbon copy of the defendant.†   (source)
  • Your husband and the defendant—do I have this right?†   (source)
  • Alex thought of the defendants that had paraded through her professional life.†   (source)
  • "The defendant's expression isn't part of it," said Ishmael.†   (source)
  • The defendant showed up at your farm in the summer of 1945 and accused Etta Heine of robbing him?†   (source)
  • This line looks like the ones on the defendant's boat?†   (source)
  • You didn't mention that the defendant had aimed similar looks at you.†   (source)
  • While Horace did so Nels returned to the defendant's table and sipped from a glass of water.†   (source)
  • Nels set himself down precariously against the edge of the defendant's table.†   (source)
  • The defendant had seen the sign on the barn and wanted to buy Ole's farm.†   (source)
  • Take a good look, ladies and gentlemen, at the defendant sitting over there.†   (source)
  • The defendant here, Mr. Miyamoto, decides he wishes to kill Carl Heine.†   (source)
  • So the blood on the gaff was not the defendant's?†   (source)
  • It was at this point, he told the court, that he came face to face with the defendant.†   (source)
  • All right, it could be the defendant's guilty of something, but maybe not what he's charged with.†   (source)
  • He went to the defendant's table and leafed through his own copy.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Maples acquiesced to the inevitable and did combat with the defendant that afternoon.†   (source)
  • So were they, the defendant and your son, on friendly or unfriendly terms from 1945 on?†   (source)
  • And the defendant's boat—do I understand this right?†   (source)
  • And the house the defendant's family had lived in, Mr. Jurgensen?†   (source)
  • Nels nodded and began to knead his forehead; he sat down on the edge of the defendant's table.†   (source)
  • Your inventory of items aboard the defendant's boat?†   (source)
  • Your husband and the defendant walked and talked, and you stayed behind.†   (source)
  • The defendant's name here is Kabuo Miyamoto.†   (source)
  • You asked him about the content of his conversation with the defendant?†   (source)
  • Alvin Hooks crossed in front of the jurors and approached the defendant's table.†   (source)
  • Alex Van Ness agreed amiably; the defendant had indeed lied.†   (source)
  • Do you mean the defendant there—Kabuo Miyamoto?†   (source)
  • When you told him the defendant had given you dirty looks your son reacted exactly how, Mrs. Heine?†   (source)
  • What led you to investigate the defendant in the first place?†   (source)
  • This one here, marked with an A, came from the defendant's boat.†   (source)
  • But, as you say, the defendant had no spare on board.†   (source)
  • Did the defendant say anything else to you during his visit in the summer of 1945?†   (source)
  • What did the defendant indicate was the nature of his business with you?†   (source)
  • Yes, she'd known the defendant, Kabuo Miyamoto, for a good long time, she figured.†   (source)
  • And you told him then the defendant had come to your —door?†   (source)
  • Did you ever have a conversation with your son about the defendant in this regard?†   (source)
  • Peculiar thing is, it does match up with the lines I found on board the defendant's boat.†   (source)
  • The defendant wasn't no friend of my son's.†   (source)
  • Consent was easier to prove than under normal conditions—the defendant had only one arm.†   (source)
  • It would corrupt her case to meet a defendant out of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Under British law, the burden of proof is on the defendant.†   (source)
  • BRADY Will you merely repeat in your own words some of the conversations you had with the defendant?†   (source)
  • It seemed that every murder defendant got one.†   (source)
  • And suddenly you start to feel a little ashamed of being in the defendant's camp.†   (source)
  • In addition, a large part of the deliberations will deal with the defendant's guardianship.†   (source)
  • Max nodded, glancing at the defendants' table.†   (source)
  • But why had such a request not been made by the defendants' attorneys?†   (source)
  • who also happens to be the victim's former lover and the defendant's current.†   (source)
  • No defendant can be compelled to reveal his defense before he is actually in court.†   (source)
  • Each side, the accusers and the defendant, was given an opportunity to propose a punishment.†   (source)
  • Wilcox had heard the story right, he had just gotten the face of the defendant wrong.†   (source)
  • I would ask this be marked as defendant's exhibit.†   (source)
  • The prosecution's denouncing the defendant before the trial has even begun!†   (source)
  • The defendant left the establishment shortly after Mr. Tester left.†   (source)
  • There were two uniformed men and another, the attorney for the defendant, Paquette.†   (source)
  • There are no records suggesting that Athenian practice allowed defendants to speak after sentencing.†   (source)
  • Defendant has been convicted of two or more offenses involving distribution of drugs.†   (source)
  • Whether that's prejudicial to the defendants I'm not able to state.†   (source)
  • Mandela and the other defendants were found not guilty and were discharged.†   (source)
  • Mum glanced up from the defendants' table, bleary-eyed and beaten.†   (source)
  • Defendant's pubic hair was found to be consistent with one found in her pubic combings.†   (source)
  • Richter led the jury away, Bob sat next to Mum at the defendants' table.†   (source)
  • The rules say a criminal defendant can enter a plea of guilty or not guilty at arraignment.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND You Honor, I request that the defendant's remarks be stricken from the record.†   (source)
  • Other factors in the defendant's background mitigate against the death sentence.†   (source)
  • The defendants were inattentive observers of the voir dire proceedings.†   (source)
  • You had a conversation with the defendant, didn't you?†   (source)
  • "No," she said, "it goes against the defendant's rights.†   (source)
  • BRADY So you have had ample opportunity to know the defendant, Mr. Cates, professionally?†   (source)
  • Defendant was under unusual and substantial duress.†   (source)
  • Defendant did not have a significant prior criminal record.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tester visited a club where the defendant worked on that same evening.†   (source)
  • She combed the court dockets, looking for plaintiffs and defendants, winners and losers.†   (source)
  • "Rights are weighted on the side of the defendant," Gail said.†   (source)
  • Defendant is punishable as an accomplice in the offense which was committed by another.†   (source)
  • This defendant confessed to you that she murdered Reverend Tester, didn't she?†   (source)
  • Litigating against him was so unpleasant that potential defendants had been known to settle quickly.†   (source)
  • Do you know which position the defendant was in, in the lineup?†   (source)
  • How many other black people, besides the defendant, do you see in the room?†   (source)
  • You'll also see a photograph of the defendant taken by the police two days after the murder.†   (source)
  • Defendant committed the offense under severe mental or emotional disturbance.†   (source)
  • Defendant's capacity to appreciate what he was doing was wrong, or illegal, was impaired.†   (source)
  • This young lady's name is not 'the defendant.†   (source)
  • The defendant was Gregory Madison, the plaintiff the People of the State of New York.†   (source)
  • "Let the record reflect that the witness identified the defendant," Mastine said.†   (source)
  • Defendant was young, although not under the age of 18.†   (source)
  • I was convicted of theft:' "Are you familiar with the defendant, Miss Dillard?"†   (source)
  • She will testify that the defendant confessed during a conversation they had at the jail.†   (source)
  • The defendant committed the offense after planning and premeditation.†   (source)
  • Do you know which position the defendant was in, in the lineup?†   (source)
  • A hair sample was later obtained from the defendant.†   (source)
  • Another defendant equally culpable will not be punished by death.†   (source)
  • Judge Glass was his usual cantankerous self, barking at defense attorneys and sniping at defendants.†   (source)
  • The defendant doesn't have to open his mouth.†   (source)
  • He put on trial only eight defendants: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, Edman Spangler, and Samuel Mudd.†   (source)
  • The defendants were released, and some would go on to great success; onetime defendant Nobusuke Kishi, said to be responsible for forcibly conscribing hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Koreans as laborers, would become prime minister in 1957.†   (source)
  • Caudill writes of a murder trial in Breathitt County, or "Bloody Breathitt," as it came to be known, that ended abruptly when the defendant's father, "a man of about fifty with huge handlebar whiskers and two immense pistols," walked up to the judge and grabbed his gavel: The feudist rapped the bench and announced, "Court's over and ever'body can go.†   (source)
  • He demanded access to the medical records and autopsy reports of Henrietta and Deborah's sister, Elsie, as well as damages of $15,000 per defendant, plus interest.†   (source)
  • The defendants were released, and some would go on to great success; onetime defendant Nobusuke Kishi, said to be responsible for forcibly conscribing hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Koreans as laborers, would become prime minister in 1957.†   (source)
  • A fear had passed since the Prothero shooting, and Wes was the fourth and final defendant to find out his verdict.†   (source)
  • The foreman hands a piece of paper to the clerk, who reads the verdict aloud: "We find the defendant guilty of murder."†   (source)
  • Though American officials justified the release by saying that it was unlikely that the defendants would have been convicted, the explanation was questionable; more than two dozen Class A defendants had been tried, and all had been convicted.†   (source)
  • She had sat in the pews of different courtrooms for months, and the emotion of watching the sentencing of the final defendant in the slaying of her husband was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • "The court appreciates your offer," the judge said, "but I doubt there's any precedent for a defendant acting as counsel for the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • Antonio and his twenty-seven-year-old co-defendant were tried together in a joint trial, and both were found guilty.†   (source)
  • Let the record show that Mrs. Henry has indicated that the defendant, James King, was one of the men she saw in the drugstore on that day.†   (source)
  • The foreman handed a piece of paper to the clerk, who stood up and read from the paper: " 'We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder.'†   (source)
  • With the knowledge of the sentences his brother and the other two defendants had received, he'd known his fate would be the same.†   (source)
  • Tony and the other two defendants had all been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.†   (source)
  • The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day.†   (source)
  • FADE IN: Four-way SPLIT-SCREEN MONTAGE: Three images alternate between shots of witnesses and defendants.†   (source)
  • When we interview prospective jurors, we're gonna ask 'em, 'Would you have a problem if you learned that a defendant was a homosexual?'†   (source)
  • The victim was an out-of-control, drunk, drug-addicted kid with a history of violence, and the defendant was a frightened, angry, nonviolent older man with no criminal record.†   (source)
  • I gave a brief history of the case and informed the court that both the defendant and the State were moving the court to dismiss all charges.†   (source)
  • The other co-defendant would not say anything about what had really happened, making it extremely difficult for us to challenge Joe's conviction.†   (source)
  • But if the defendant alleges new evidence that could lead to a different outcome in the case—or that undermines the reliability of the trial—there is typically a hearing.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has long required that the prosecution disclose to the defendant anything that is exculpatory or that may be helpful to the defendant in impeaching a witness.†   (source)
  • Leven, the statute requires that a defendant charged with first-degree murder-multiple counts, at that-be held without bail.†   (source)
  • Because I hadn't hired any lawyers yet, I didn't have co-counsel to sit with me and help manage documents or help with the defendant during the hearing.†   (source)
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