All 23 Uses of "defendant" in "Just Mercy" - Auto-generated

Tom Robinson, the wrongly accused black defendant, is found guilty.†

p. 23.9 *

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

So defendants like Walter McMillian, even in counties that were 40 or 50 percent black, frequently found themselves staring at all-white juries, especially in death penalty cases.†

p. 60.2

defendants = people (or institutions) legally accused or sued in court

Then, in 1986, the Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants—and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors.†

p. 60.4

The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day.†

p. 60.5

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

"The defendant's motion to change venue is granted," the judge ruled.†

p. 62.1

It had frequently been criticized by defense lawyers for almost never finding serious mental disabilities that would prevent defendants from going to trial.†

p. 63.5

defendants = people (or institutions) legally accused or sued in court

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.†

p. 80.6

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

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.†

p. 107.1

I'd seen the abuse of power in many cases before, but there was something especially upsetting about it here, where not only a single defendant was being victimized but an entire community as well.†

p. 112.9

The party that prosecutes a criminal defendant is called the "State" or the "People" or the "Commonwealth" because when someone is murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted, it is an offense against all of us.†

p. 140.6

Black defendant and white victim pairings increased the likelihood of a death sentence even more.†

p. 142.8

Defendants who are deemed incompetent can't be tried in adversarial criminal proceedings—meaning that the State can't prosecute them unless they become well enough to defend themselves.†

p. 150.1

defendants = people (or institutions) legally accused or sued in court

Antonio and his twenty-seven-year-old co-defendant were tried together in a joint trial, and both were found guilty.†

p. 156.3

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sentences of less than ten years for adult defendants, even in this era of harsh punishments.†

p. 156.9

defendants = people (or institutions) legally accused or sued in court

For instance, in the infamous Scottsboro Boys case in the 1930s, two of the defendants, Roy Wright and Eugene Williams, were just thirteen years old when they were wrongfully convicted of rape and sentenced to death in Alabama.†

p. 157.4

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.†

p. 178.7

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

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.†

p. 178.7

the rationale, as stated by the defendant, for his recantation;†

p. 205.7

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.†

p. 224.5

As expected, the defendants all claimed immunity for the conduct that had resulted in Walter's wrongful conviction.†

p. 246.6

defendants = people (or institutions) legally accused or sued in court

After a year of depositions, hearings, and pretrial litigation, we eventually reached a settlement with most of the defendants that would provide Walter with a few hundred thousand dollars.†

p. 247.6

We had discovered that both the victim and one of his co-defendants had died.†

p. 262.9

The other co-defendant would not say anything about what had really happened, making it extremely difficult for us to challenge Joe's conviction.†

p. 262.9

defendant = a person or institution legally accused or sued in court

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