Sentence examples for defendants may be from inspiring English sources

Defendants may be denied access to the evidence considered.

Defendants may be surprised to hear their own words quoted in a courtroom.

We also have ample examples of the way the lives of acquitted defendants may be destroyed by the publicity.

Such cases are seldom tried, so jurors' attitudes ought not count much, though defendants may be more apt to settle if juries have a reputation for big awards.

There are signs that trials may begin soon, and upon conviction -- of which, given the Chinese criminal system, there is little doubt -- the defendants may be expelled.

The argument the judge gave is that "defendants may be prejudiced if the plaintiff is referred to under a pseudonym, because of the implication of guilt", said Anand.

But the defendant may be just a secondary figure.

The defendant may be free, but we remain captive to a binary discourse of accusation and counter-accusation, of grievance and counter-grievance, of victims and victimizers.

But you saw why the defendant may be a prosecutor's dream if he succumbs to a seeming narcissism, and a reflex to deny error, by testifying.

If some abnormality is found in a person's brain, the doctor's report is submitted as mitigating evidence and the defendant may be treated more leniently.

Edwin S. Kneedler, a deputy solicitor general, said that while "the Alien Tort Statute identifies who the plaintiff must be — the plaintiff must be an alien — it does not identify who the defendant may be".