Sentence examples for defendants claim from inspiring English sources

Prosecuting, David Pickup said the defendants' claim to have been acting to defend their communities was false because the whites were rampaging through a different part of town: "What these defendants engaged in were not acts of self-defence but acts of wanton violence.

Federal civil rights suits are also possible when defendants claim that they have been unjustly convicted.

Lawsuits in such cases can be sealed only if the defendants claim the information in the legal filings contains trade secrets, other confidential business information or "scandalous" material.

But on April 1, Justice Roger S. Hayes of State Supreme Court in Manhattan rejected a motion to dismiss the charges based on the defendants' claim that the entire case was a civil matter involving contract disputes, not criminality.

Two of the defendants claim to have been forced to confess under torture, the details of which, as documented by both Amnesty and Bahraini human rights groups, are horrifying.

The office of the Bronx district attorney, Robert T. Johnson, said in a court filing on Wednesday that "despite diligent efforts and an ongoing re-investigation, this office has yet to verify the information forming the crux of defendants' claim".

Lawyers for the defendants claimed that the case was a "complete shambles".

Why wouldn't most defendants, claiming consent, not check out the Evans defence?

During their trial, the defendants claimed that they had been tortured into confessing their role in the killing.

He said that, despite the defendants' claims, the harm threatened against Criado-Perez "must have been intended to be very high".

Mr. Pletcher called the defendants' claims that they had been targeted because they lacked political connections a "wild conspiracy theory" and "absurd".