Sentence examples for accused to stand from inspiring English sources

The amendments would introduce a "forum bar", which would allow British courts to block an extradition request if they believed that it was in the interests of justice for the accused to stand trial in the UK rather than abroad.

Its dramatic end came when the presiding judge, Carmel A. Agius of Malta, finished a long summary of what he called the "horrific crimes" of July 1995, "arrestive in their scale and brutality," and he asked the accused to stand to hear their sentences.

The charges are thrown out after a judge finds there is not enough evidence for the accused to stand trial.

The beleaguered court has no army and no police and so is reliant on the security council to take coercive measures that could compel Bashir and his co-accused to stand trial.

But, he added: "If the accused decides to stand mute and not say anything throughout the course of the trial, then it makes no difference.

2. If, for example, an accused confessed fully to a homicide and led the police to the body of the victim under circumstances making his confession inadmissible, the petitioner would have us allow that accused to take the stand and blandly deny every fact disclosed to the police or discovered as a "fruit" of his confession, free from confrontation with his prior statements and acts.

Moreover, civilian trials also permit those who stand accused to conduct a thorough defence in public against the state's ultimate sanction and to be judged by a jury comprising members of the community.

It's unusual that the accused have decided to stand and fight".

Last year, moviegoers in India were arrested after they were accused of refusing to stand for the national anthem, as required by a Supreme Court ruling.

Now Ms Suu Kyi's accused of failing to stand up for reporters, as well as the Rohingya.

The accused are unlikely ever to stand trial.