Sentence examples for defendants over from inspiring English sources

The United States attorney's office in Manhattan, which conducted an exhaustive review of the case, reported its findings in June to the Bronx district attorney's office, which had prosecuted the defendants over the course of two trials and defended their convictions on appeal.

In the past couple of years the Supreme Court has made several rulings favouring corporate defendants over shareholders.

Republicans cited the ruling in accusing the court of favoring the rights of criminals and defendants over the rights of crime victims.

She supported reducing the disparity between lighter criminal sentences for dealing cocaine powder and heavier ones for crack cocaine, a difference generally seen as favoring white defendants over black ones.

"Not only do you have the substantive law and the procedural law, but you have the whole cultural orientation," said Anthony L. Ricco, who has represented a series of terrorism defendants over the past two decades.

The judge, however, denied Mr. Cuomo's request for a judgment against both defendants over a transaction involving General Re to improve A.I.G.'s loss reserves by $500 million without transferring risk.

Mr Dunkels claimed the victim, who was 5ft 2inches and weighed 8.5 stone, had become "increasingly isolated and depressed as the defendants took over his house and his life".

The defendants collected over $12 million from 90 senior citizens by promising them returns of 50%.

"It cannot be imposed on a defendant over his objection," Professor Morse said.

The chief justice, wrote Mr Toobin, "has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff".

Twelve jurors studying a defendant over several weeks are better at assessing the defendant's credibility than any journalist, law professor or other expert.