This is an unpredictable revenue stream, and it may also pose a conflict of interest since public defenders end up representing many defendants whose fines support their salaries.
The decision involved two defendants whose cases had been consolidated.
Those percentages do not include the large number of defendants whose race was unknown.
The other defendants whose humanitarian needs were presumably as great, got less than $20,000 each.
The overwhelming majority were male – 89% – and 41% of defendants whose ethnicity is known were white.
There seems to be no question now that all the defendants (whose ages ranged from 13 to 19) were innocent.
The evidence against the other defendants whose cases were submitted to the jury was similar in character.
While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.
No longer prisoners of war, they are criminal defendants whose treatment will be in accordance with Iraqi law.
"It must, by necessity, sweep in defendants whose guilt is much less clear and whose representation is much less skilled.
Defendants whose cases are under review and their lawyers will be notified, he said, although the office declined to make the names of the defendants public.
