All 29 Uses of
defendant
in
Nineteen Minutes
- But there were miles to drive and defendants to arraign and chemical equations to interpret, and by the time Josie had set the bacon to drain on a pad of paper toweling, the moment had winged away.†
Chpt 1
- The first defendant was called, and he shuffled past the bar with his eyes averted.†
Chpt 1
- The defendant glanced down, weighing impropriety against honesty.†
Chpt 1
- Alex thought of the defendants that had paraded through her professional life.†
Chpt 1
- The defendant, a fifty-four-year-old woman sporting a bad perm and an even worse pantsuit, nodded.†
Chpt 1
- 'That's a fifty-five-dollar tropical fish, Judge,' the defendant interjected.†
Chpt 1
- Alex turned to the defendant.†
Chpt 1
- When Alex was rotating as a district court judge, she'd faced defendants she'd known on a personal level: her mailman caught with pot in his car; a domestic disturbance between her mechanic and his wife.†
Chpt 1
- The four cameras that the district court judge had agreed on to represent the networks-ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN-hummed to life like a barbershop quartet as soon as the defendant was led into the room.†
Chpt 1
- 'Peter Houghton,' he began, turning to the defendant.†
Chpt 1
- Leven, the statute requires that a defendant charged with first-degree murder-multiple counts, at that-be held without bail.†
Chpt 1
- The worst part of the job was that you couldn't give people what they really needed when they came to court: for a defendant-the sentencing that would really offer treatment, instead of a punishment.†
Chpt 1
- She looked like a poorly aged carbon copy of the defendant.†
Chpt 1
- She knew just what to say to a defendant who'd come in with his third DUI charge, but she couldn't sustain a five-minute conversation with her own child.†
Chpt 1
- There was a defendant on the stand who claimed to have no experience with the criminal justice system.†
Chpt 1
- Then she faced the defendant.†
Chpt 1
- A murmur spread virally through the courtroom, something that always happened in the wake of hearing that not-guilty plea, and that always seemed ridiculous to Alex-what was the defendant supposed to do?†
Chpt 1
- 'He looked like a defendant,' she said.†
Chpt 1
- When you're on the stand, and you say that, I'll ask you to look at the defendant and identify him for the record.†
Chpt 2
- Finally, in the locker room, the defendant shot Matthew Royston twice-once in the stomach, and again in the head.†
Chpt 2
- He'he came around the side of the school and started to come up the steps" 'By 'he,' do you mean the defendant, Peter Houghton?†
Chpt 2
- What did the defendant do?
Chpt 2 *defendant = person legally accused of a crime
- Detective,' Diana said, 'when you cornered the defendant in the locker room, what was he holding?†
Chpt 2
- One handgun with the defendant, one on the floor, and two sawed-off shotguns in a knapsack.†
Chpt 2
- Doctor, were you able to compare information from past school shootings to this one, in order to support your conclusion that the defendant was sane and responsible for his actions?†
Chpt 2
- Would it be fair to say that one of the most important components of diagnosing the defendant was the time you spent interviewing him?†
Chpt 2
- 'You said that part of your diagnosis of PTSD came from the fact that the defendant was attempting to get help, and couldn't.†
Chpt 2
- Alex sat in the dark of the conference room where defendants were usually brought during breaks, and realized that her daughter now would qualify.†
Chpt 2
- Defendants liked her because she wasn't condescending and because she told them the truth about their chances: what you saw of Alex Cormier was what you got.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(defendant) a person or institution legally accused or sued in court