Sentence examples for defendants need from inspiring English sources

Others in the community said the defendants need treatment, not prison.

See id. at 11. Montejo returns that Louisiana's argument that defendants need to "affirmatively accept" appointed council is illogical.

(Emphasis added). In other words, although defendants need not control the nuisance at all times, they must have, minimally, controlled the nuisance at the time of the damage.

He had directed that the defendants need not be taken out, and might sit in court and visit with their families and friends.

Aside from safety concerns, some prosecutors scoff at the notion that defendants need an earlier peek at evidence to know if they are guilty.

And defendants need to prove that the courtroom errors in their own cases were not only part of a larger pattern of misconduct, but also that the prosecutors knew about the pattern and ignored it.

What the defendants needed more than punishment was treatment.

A few minutes later a prosecutor, David Raskin, disagreed, saying that the defendants needed no encouragement.

This country has a long history of lynchings, but not one in which non-black defendants needed to fear the fury of black mobs.

Whether the court was in error as claimed by the defendant need not be determined.

Indeed, the statute covers any "endeavor" to obstruct, meaning that the defendant need not be successful to commit the crime.