All 28 Uses of
defendant
in
The Trial
- This comment could have caused all possible rage to break out between them, but K. also bore in mind that this was a prospective court official speaking to a disfavoured defendant, and he might well have been taking pride in speaking in this way.†
Chpt 3
- "You're the court usher, aren't you?" asked K. "That's right," said the man, "oh, yes, you're defendant K., I recognise you now as well.†
Chpt 3
- "These defendants are so sensitive, most of them," said the usher of the court.†
Chpt 3
- "Would you not like to sit down here a while?" asked the information-giver, there were already in the corridor and just in front of the defendant whom K. had spoken to earlier.†
Chpt 3
- But the defendant seemed to notice nothing of what was going on and just stood there humbly, as if wanting to apologise to the information-giver for being there.†
Chpt 3
- However, when this happens, you should never trust them too far, as however firmly they may have declared this new point of view in favour of the defendant they might well go straight back to their offices and write a report for the court that says just the opposite, and might well be even harder on the defendant than the original view, the one they insist they've been fully dissuaded from.†
Chpt 7
- However, when this happens, you should never trust them too far, as however firmly they may have declared this new point of view in favour of the defendant they might well go straight back to their offices and write a report for the court that says just the opposite, and might well be even harder on the defendant than the original view, the one they insist they've been fully dissuaded from.†
Chpt 7
- Even the most junior lawyer can understand the relationship there to some extent, but one significant point is that almost every defendant, even very simple people, begins to think of suggestions for improving the court as soon as his proceedings have begun, many of them often even spend time and energy on the matter that could be spent far better elsewhere.†
Chpt 7
- It's not that the accused takes the case away from him, that hardly ever happens, once a defendant has taken on a certain lawyer he has to stay with him whatever happens.†
Chpt 7
- The trial will have entered a stage where no more help can be given, where it's being processed in courts to which no-one has any access, where the defendant cannot even be contacted by his lawyer.†
Chpt 7
- Could it be that they were making use of the lawyer to turn trials in a certain direction, which would, of course, always be at the cost of the defendant?†
Chpt 7
- The first signs of it could already be seen in the fact that the first documents still had not been submitted even though the trial had already lasted several months, and that, according to the lawyer, everything was still in its initial stages, which was very effective, of course, in making the defendant passive and keeping him helpless.†
Chpt 7
- There could be no let-up in these efforts, everything would need to be organised and supervised, it was about time that the court came up against a defendant who knew how to defend and make use of his rights.†
Chpt 7
- But they were all agreed on one thing, and that was that when ill thought-out accusations are made they are not ignored, and that once the court has made an accusation it is convinced of the guilt of the defendant and it's very hard to make it think otherwise."†
Chpt 7
- Not a single innocent defendant in so many cases?
Chpt 7 *defendant = someone legally accused in court
- But there aren't usually many hold ups from then on, and that's the time that the defendant can feel most confident.†
Chpt 7
- When he has the document asserting the defendant's innocence, guaranteed by a number of other judges, the judge can acquit you without any worries, and although there are still several formalities to be gone through there's no doubt that that's what he'll do as a favour to me and several other acquaintances.†
Chpt 7
- One day — no-one expects it — some judge or other picks up the documents and looks more closely at them, he notices that this particular case is still active, and orders the defendant's immediate arrest.†
Chpt 7
- I've been talking here as if there's a long delay between apparent acquittal and re-arrest, that is quite possible and I do know of cases like that, but it's just as likely that the defendant goes home after he's been acquitted and finds somebody there waiting to re-arrest him.†
Chpt 7
- You mean, do you, that the second arrest would have an adverse influence on the judge and the verdict he passes on the defendant?†
Chpt 7
- The trial doesn't stop, but the defendant is almost as certain of avoiding conviction as if he'd been acquitted.†
Chpt 7
- Compared with an apparent acquittal, deferment has the advantage that the defendant's future is less uncertain, he's safe from the shock of being suddenly re-arrested and doesn't need to fear the exertions and stress involved in getting an apparent acquittal just when everything else in his life would make it most difficult.†
Chpt 7
- I don't mean by this that the defendant is never free, he's never free in the proper sense of the word with an apparent acquittal either.†
Chpt 7
- "Both have in common that they prevent the defendant being convicted," he said.†
Chpt 7
- It seemed to him that one of the most basic rules governing how a defendant should behave was always to be prepared, never allow surprises, never to look, unsuspecting, to the right when the judge stood beside him to his left — and this was the very basic rule that he was continually violating.†
Chpt 7
- We knew you were a defendant.†
Chpt 8
- One of these superstitions, for example, is that you can learn a lot about the outcome of a defendant's case by looking at his face, especially the shape of his lips.†
Chpt 8
- But I would like to show you how other defendants are treated, perhaps you will succeed in learning something from it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(defendant) a person or institution legally accused or sued in court