Sentence examples for defendant describing from inspiring English sources

But the United States attorney's office in Manhattan has made it clear in court papers that it believes Mr. Coke, 43, is no ordinary defendant, describing him as so powerful in Jamaica that he enjoyed "virtual immunity from the reach of law enforcement".

In his second day as a government witness at Mr. Guzmán's drug conspiracy trial in Federal District Courtin Brooklyn, Mr. Ramírez detailed his 17-year bond with the defendant, describing it as the central partnership in one of modern history's most profitable narco-operations.

A Chinese defendant, described on the charge sheet as a man, turned out to be a woman.

Two men and a woman pleaded guilty in connection with his death in what one defendant described as a robbery gone bad.

The defendant described how he had oral sex with her during her 79 days of captivity, giving her sweets "to take the taste away".

Another defendant, described as a former Jewish Defense League member, pleaded guilty to taking part in another incident at Lincoln Center, when a tear gas grenade was thrown into the audience in the Metropolitan Opera House at the opening night performance of the Moiseyev Dance Company last September.

In the McVeigh case, Burr said he and his co-counsel were given plenty of time to prepare, but shortly before the trial opened a confidential file in which the defendant described how he had committed the Oklahoma City bombing was obtained by a reporter and published, throwing the whole defense case into crisis.

The defendants described themselves in testimony as staunch supporters of autonomy for the District of Columbia.

The three defendants described by prosecutors as ringleaders received sentences of 15 to 20 years.

And many more were resolved through guilty pleas, when defendants described their crimes, but only in limited ways.

The language is not bleeped out as the young defendants describe what sound like episodes from a modern soap opera.