Sentence examples for defendant responsible from inspiring English sources
"Hold the defendant responsible for his actions; hold him accountable for what he did.
Deena Burnett, whose husband, Tom, led a group of passengers who stormed the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed in Pennsylvania, asked that the court "hold the defendant responsible for terrorism and murder".
"This lawsuit seeks to hold the Facebook defendants responsible... including their failure to take any action in response to a known and credible threat of violence," it says.
The lawsuits before Judge Daniels seek to hold charities, financial institutions and other defendants responsible for providing money and other support to Al Qaeda and for the 9/11 attacks.
The majority opinion deftly sets forth a basis for holding defendants responsible for their actions, while simultaneously emphasizing the need for a finite boundary on liability.
Secondary liability, by contrast, is a means of holding defendants responsible for infringement by third parties, even when the defendants "have not themselves engaged in the infringing activity". Id., at 435.
A second important criticism of post war trials is that they hold defendants responsible for acts that were not prohibited at the time they were committed.
To hold the defendants responsible for violating these rules and dictates, and reject any argument that their acts' compliance with German law could make them lawful acts, was not (so the tribunal ruled) to violate the principle of law and justice that no one should be punished except for violation of law.
But the sentencing law of the day required judges to hold defendants responsible not only for the crimes that they'd been convicted of committing, but also for a variety of aggravating elements, like possessing a gun or serving as an organizer or leader.
Last year, there was a rare case of a district attorney's moving to trial even after the prosecution's own expert found the defendant not responsible.
