Sentence examples for before defendants from inspiring English sources

That presumption, which dated back to the time before defendants could give evidence, was abolished in 1925.

Under Italian law, two levels of appeals must be completed before defendants begin serving a sentence.

"[The Daily Mirror] is now using CEN again, but at a much-reduced level from the period before defendant's publication," said CEN in its 16-page legal filing.

In the fall of 1969 during the trial of Chicago seven for inciting violence and riots during the Democratic convention the year before, defendant Abbie Hoffman asked Collins to be a character witness.

The judge will question other witnesses and defendants before deciding whether formally to charge Mr Boudou, to investigate further, or to drop the case.

This and other international tribunals have seen truculent defendants before, the best known among them former President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who died here in 2006 of a heart attack before the end of his trial.

Welcome to the ethically challenged courtroom of Judge Mark Fuller, who waited 18 months before providing defendants with the trial transcript necessary before filing any appeal.

In another two, he said, his office had the charges dismissed before the defendants were convicted.

Appeals led to retrials, convictions and more appeals for several years before the defendants were eventually paroled or escaped.

The stabbing came just two months before the defendants and three others were to go on trial in the bombing case in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Before the defendants, Chris Levy, 19, and Cory Azor, 18, were sentenced, they stood as Mr. Kao's niece, Christine Chu, recounted her uncle's life in a victim-impact statement read in State Supreme Court in Queens.