All 17 Uses
defendant
in
Native Son
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- The judge rapped for order and asked, "Is the defendant ready to enter a plea to this indictment?"†
Book 3 *defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court
- The defendant, Bigger Thomas, pleads guilty.†
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- "The State will submit witnesses and evidence to establish the legal sanity of the defendant," Buckley said.†
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- The array of witnesses for the State, the confession made and signed by the defendant himself, and the concrete evidence will reveal the unnatural aspect of this vile offense against God and man more eloquently than I could ever dare.†
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- The indictment fully states the crime to which the defendant has entered a plea of guilty.†
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- After entering such a plea, the counsel for the defense indicates that he shall ask this Court to believe that the mental and emotional life of the defendant are such that he does not bear full responsibility for these cowardly rapes and murders.†
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- "At such time as the Court may indicate, I shall offer evidence and put witnesses upon the stand to testify that this defendant is sane and is responsible for these bloody crimes"."†
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- I object to the counsel for the defendant speaking of this defendant before this Court by any name other than that written in the indictment.†
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- I object to the counsel for the defendant speaking of this defendant before this Court by any name other than that written in the indictment.†
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- In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.†
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- "I intend to prove that this defendant is sane, that he was and is responsible for these frightful crimes," Buckley said.†
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- The law of Illinois, regarding a plea of guilty to murder before a court, is as follows: the Court may impose the death penalty, imprison the defendant for life, or for a term of not less than fourteen years.†
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- Perhaps it is in a manner fortunate that the defendant has committed one of the darkest crimes in our memory" for if we can encompass the life of this man and find out what has happened to him, if we can understand how subtly and yet strongly his life and fate are linked to ours"if we can do this, perhaps we shall find the key to our future, that rare vantage point upon which every man and woman in this nation can stand and view how inextricably our hopes and fears of today create the exultation and doom of tomorrow.†
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- "I know that it is the fashion these days for a defendant to say: "Everything went blank to me."†
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- My voice may sound vindictive when I say: Make the defendant pay the highest penalty for his crimes!†
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- My voice may sound cruel when I say: The defendant merits the death penalty for his self-confessed crimes!†
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- The counsel for the defendant, with characteristic Communistic cunning, boasted that I could not supply a motive for the crimes of this beast.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(defendant) a person (or institution) legally accused or sued in court
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)