Sentence examples for demand a trial from inspiring English sources
Appellant's failure to demand a trial by a common-law jury amounted, we think, to a waiver of the constitutional right, if any, now claimed.
So some may demand a trial, running a risk that if found guilty, they could be sentenced to as many as 15 days in jail.
If forced to admit wrongdoing, companies would be more likely to demand a trial in S.E.C. fraud cases, the agency says.
He could accept a plea bargain and spend the next 13 years in prison, or he could demand a trial and risk a minimum sentence of 15 years to life.
So, in what must have been a major surprise to Marsh and his colleagues, Brendan Sullivan announced that he would demand a trial within seventy days of the indictment.
Most publicly defended accused agree to a plea bargain because of an unspoken, though very real, "trial tax"; if they demand a trial and lose, a draconian sentence will be imposed.
We do not know whether the parties demanded a trial by jury on the question of their guilty violation of that statute.
It would be a court-clogging nightmare if every self-confessed speeder demanded a trial, but it is a fine thing if, now and then, some people do.
He makes an impassioned defence at his hearing – during which he is betrayed by the woman he loves, Shae – before demanding a trial by combat.
But the appellate court felt that prosecutors had violated the defendant's rights by suggesting that, because he had demanded a trial, he was not sorry.
