Sentence examples for could be defendants from inspiring English sources

JPMorgan is among 11 companies and people informed that they could be defendants, a group that also includes Monte dei Paschi's former president, Giuseppe Mussari; its former director general, Antonio Vigni; and its former chief financial officer, Daniele Pirondini.

The Aetna settlement came two weeks after Mr. Cornyn was the host at a fund-raiser in Austin for the Republican Attorneys General Association, a group that has solicited money from corporations, including some that are, or could be, defendants in lawsuits by states.

It was not immediately clear who would be the target of the suit, but the lawyer, Andrew Reid, indicated that the BBC could be one defendant when he said that the state-owned broadcaster had played a part in encouraging the Internet speculation about Mr. McAlpine.

This principle has been expanded to cover other circumstances as well: misdemeanor cases where the defendant could be jailed, a defendant's first appeal from a conviction and proceedings against a juvenile for delinquency.

Ultimately, cases turned on whether it could be shown that defendants knew they were breaking the law.

A crucial question of intent could be when the defendants knew they were going to the training camp.

Two other prominent figures who did not surrender and were not granted amnesty by the government -- Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, the commandant of the Khmer Rouge torture chamber, Tuol Sleng -- have been jailed and could be the first defendants to be brought into court.

A study by the Capital Jury Project in 2001 found that "white jurors thought black defendants were more dangerous than white defendants and believed that black defendants could be paroled sooner from prison than whites even when no evidence had been presented as to these points".

Because Vick could be the last defendant to make a plea, he could face the longest sentence.

In the defendants lose or settle, full-time employees of the defendants could be compensated for the 10-15% of lost wages estimated by the plaintiffs' law firm Lieff Cabraser.

It might seem obvious that prosecutors with any sense of fairness would inform a defendant's lawyer of evidence that could be favorable to the defendant's case.