Sentence examples for codefendant from inspiring English sources

A codefendant has the right to request a change even if it requires splitting the trial into two or more separate cases.

In 1970 71 he and a codefendant were tried for the 1969 murder of a Black Panther suspected of being a police informer.

I think all of us understand full well that the significance of our trial extends far beyond the scope of my fate and Platon's, [Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's former associate and codefendant] and even the fates of all those who have guiltlessly suffered in the massacre of Yukos — those I found myself unable to protect, but whom I remember every day.

But few others have such confidence in the transparency of a politicised case in a country where 98% of hearings end in conviction, and where state media has announced there is irrefutable proof against Gu and her codefendant.

The former royal editor of the News of the World, Clive Goodman, his codefendant on the second and third counts, also denied the charges.

Richmond will be held in juvenile detention for at least a year, and perhaps until he is twenty-one; his codefendant, Trent Mays, who is seventeen, will serve an extra year on a charge of distributing child pornography, for taking and sending around a picture of the victim, naked.

Yesterday, a lawyer for Ahmed Abdel Sattar, one of Ms. Stewart's codefendants, contended that another form of federal monitoring -- new rules announced by the Bush administration last fall that allow the government to listen to inmates' conversations with lawyers -- was so chilling that Mr. Sattar was "unwilling to speak to counsel, knowing he may be monitored".

During a four-week trial in the spring of 2000, the charge against Lewis was dropped (he pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in exchange for testifying against his codefendants), but his reputation was nevertheless tarnished, and many wondered if his play would be adversely affected.

Eventually the government abandoned the criminal charges, but Debs and his codefendants, all officers of the ARU, stood trial for violating the injunction.

The powerful defense put up by Blum and his codefendants so greatly discomfited the Vichy authorities and so irritated the Germans that in April the hearings were suspended indefinitely, and Blum was returned to prison.

In December 1894 Debs and his codefendants were tried before Judge Woods, who found them in contempt and sentenced them to three to six months in prison (the conspiracy charge was withdrawn during the trial).