Sentence examples for defence sought from inspiring English sources

The defence sought a suspended sentence and now has a week to appeal against the verdict.

On 16 April, the court heard recordings of a cricket bat striking a door and gunshots fired through the door as the defence sought to prove the sounds were similar and so could be confused from a distance.

The defence sought to identify the Simpson case as the latest in a series of racial abuses by the LAPD, which featured such celebrated outrages as the Rodney King case and thousands of other insults and affronts great and small.

She pleaded not guilty and her defence sought to emphasise the circumstantial nature of the evidence and highlighted her devotion to her son as a reason why she could not have been capable of the murder.

The defence seek to argue that he was suffering from such an "abnormality of mind" that he was guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

From the outset the situation is contested in the sense that the prosecution and the defence seek opposite outcomes.

De la Pole, hastily organizing the coastal defences, sought an unprecedentedly large grant of taxation from Parliament.

We also told him that it would cause huge practical problems if defence lawyers sought blanket orders to taken down material which could be seen by jurors.

Northwood, the British military headquarters, countermanded this order, while Fieldhouse and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin, chief of defence staff, sought the prime minister's permission.

Bradley Manning's defence team sought to score early points at his trial by pressuring Adrian Lamo to concede he never got the impression Pte Manning was motivated by hatred for America.

Her defence likewise sought to show that the occurrence of the threats, on only one day, in the early hours of the morning, was indicative of a moment of poor judgment brought about by ongoing drink problems.