defendent in a sentence

Examples

1. KUCHING, Fri .-The Sessions Court today deferred to June 26, the decision on whether to call for the defendent in the parcel bomb case, to enter his defence.
2. The retrial against the founder of Peru's Maoist Shining Path insurgency was suspended for a week after the defendent and his supporters began chanting revolutionary slogans before cameras in the courtroom.
3. In this case, the defendent also accepts the consequences of a guilty plea, but refuses to allocute ( i . e . confess to the actual details of the crime ).
4. He told the court : " This is the first case which the tribunal has to try, but the experiment should not be conducted at the expense of the defendent ."
5. But it may also include a new defendent, the Arizona-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation housing Williams's frozen body, possibly exposing the nonprofit cryonics company to extensive questioning under oath.
6. Dusan Tadic, charged with murder, crimes against humanity and rape in Serb-held Bosnia in 1992, is the first defendent tried for war crimes since the trials following World War II.
7. Crivelli barred live coverage as too great an intrusion in the courtroom and for a possible election campaign, but said the fame of the defendent and his political interests merited that cameras be present.
8. For starters, nearly everyone interviewed said that most prosecutors with nearly no chance of winning would try to secure some punishment by negotiating a settlement rather than risk a jury letting the defendent off entirely.
9. After a 10-to 15-minute break, the lawyers and Guastella's co-defendent, Robert Martins, also of Las Vegas and also found guilty, stood before the judge.
10. The penalties would be increased to prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of 10 million yen ( dlrs 80, 600 ) if the defendent received any money for helping the immigrants.