Sentence examples for defendant without from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, the judge gets to interact directly with the defendant, without the interference of "pesky" lawyers.

Her empathy for Mr. Thompson as a defendant without means or power is affecting.

"The police charged the defendant without reference to the CPS," she said.

When a jury is truly deadlocked, a state can retry a defendant without violating the double jeopardy principle.

"You don't want to make an opening statement to the jury where you hurt your credibility," Professor Chin said, by seeming to impute motives to a defendant without being able to prove them.

There's a big difference between convicting a defendant without DNA evidence because the technology did not exist and convicting a defendant when DNA evidence is available and the DNA results are negative.

The dramatic cutback with which Anderson and others have to contend in the wake of sequestration won't leave indigent defendants without legal representation -- the federal public defender system, which provides legal representation to such defendants accused of felonies, will go on.

The prosecutors asked United States Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz, to hold the two men — and three other defendants — without bail.

But Mayor Michael Bloomberg does have a chance to cut the cost of providing attorneys for indigent defendants without shortchanging justice.

"You know, the Americans have genius officers who find ways to extract confessions from defendants without beating them," he says.

It directed them not to charge certain low-level, non-violent, non-recidivist drug defendants without ties to cartels with crimes serious enough to trigger mandatory minimum sentences.